... Vincent Women’s liberation second-class citizens male domination ecology racial justice Patsy Parker Vivian Rothstein SDS Despite the claims of 1960s student activists to be radical champions of cultural, social, and political change, the movement was slow in confronting traditional gender roles...

... the Virginia Slims Tour. A series of social changes impacted these movements, including Black Power, women’s liberation, the push for labor unions in professional sports, and U.S. president Richard Nixon’s emphasis on black capitalism. These case studies expose the triumphs and failures of athlete economic...

... and Kathrine Switzer, who each competed in the Boston Marathon in the late 1960s despite race rules prohibiting women runners, exposed a wide range of responses to second-wave feminism and women’s liberation. In the wake of their breakthrough, mainstream women’s magazines gradually expanded coverage of women’s...