Download or read book Mapping the Women's Movement written by Monica Threlfall and published by Verso. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second-wave feminism is now in its third decade. The movement that began in the 1960s in the United States has gone through many permutations, continuously emerging in new forms in different parts of the world. Awareness of gender has entered popular culture, redrawn political divisions and impinged on national economies and international institutions.