Thoughts on womens liberation movement – Part 6

Remembering what “women’s Lib,’ stands for is crucial for the future and history of humanity! Women’s lib stands for women’s liberation. In the early 1970’s, several years after the Women’s Rights movement was in action, academics and activists became aware of and gave a name to this simultaneous and encompassing movement.

Women’s Rights was a civil rights movement that worked for same job/equal pay for women, equal value and consideration in health care issues on the job and in the researching field, and recognition of the socio-economic contribution oif the stay-at-home mother. Women’s Liberation was a movement about paradigm shifting and new consciousness for women and men. It sought to liberate women beyond the legal and financial realm, beyond terms like “equality,” and into a new value system that took women out of the house, out of the status-quo, and into a “liberated” status where motherhood, management, education, and societal roles could be defined by women , a new axis, instead of by men, the existing axis.

When you hear about the bra-burning, the women’s rap groups, consciousness-raising organizations, and the brave women of color like Angela Davis, and Buffy Sainte-Marie who wrote, sang, and blasted their way through the 70’s with the support of the Black Panthers, and the U.S.’s most radical and marginalized co-cultures of that time, you are hearing about the causes of the the “Women’s Libbers.” This movement rarely receives its due credit and its mission is still ours as we struggle to maintain our reproductive rights and to synergize our roles as mothers and full-time working partners. Teach our children about Liberation…it’s benefits soar above legalities and policy to generate new ideas for mind, body, soul, and society