![]() Feminist-owned bookstores, credit unions, and restaurants were among the key meeting spaces and economic engines of the movement. ![]() ![]() Second-wave feminism also drew attention to the issues of domestic violence and marital rape, created rape-crisis centers and women's shelters, and brought about changes in custody laws and divorce law. It was a movement that was focused on critiquing the patriarchal, or male-dominated, institutions and cultural practices throughout society. Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality ( e.g., voting rights and property rights), second-wave feminism broadened the debate to include a wider range of issues: sexuality, family, domesticity, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, and official legal inequalities. It took place throughout the Western world, and aimed to increase equality for women by building on previous feminist gains. ![]() Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades. ![]()
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