It's February 1970; we women are taking a stand once and for all to get the rights we deserve. Some of these women goals of this feminist movement are simple: let women have freedom, equal opportunity, and control over their lives. Others are more specific such as the second wave feminism. This is where women are trying to get a few outcomes of this movement such as rethinking society with feminist theory. Feminist theory was accomplished by women's studies, feminist literary criticism, gynocriticism, socialist feminism, and the feminist art movement. The next on the second wave was abortion rights which women wanted so that they could have reproductive freedom and safe access to legal abortion. De-texting the English language was the debate over assumptions embedded in our language that reflect the assumption of male dominated patriarchal society. Education in the mid-
20th century myth of middle-class suburban house wife down played the importance of women's education. Equality legislation was enforced by the equal rights amendment, the equal pay act, and the addition of sex discrimination to the civil rights act. Rethinking women's role in the households, and lastly in "I want a wife" Ms. Magazine suggested any adult would love to have someone to play the "housewife role". The first movement towards these rights was the first women's refuge that was set up in Chiswick in 1971 by Erin Pizzey. It provided protection for women who were being abused by their husbands and needed a safe place to stay. In 1972, at the initiative of Representative Martha Griffiths (who had become the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress from Michigan for the Democratic party in 1954). Michigan women played a prominent role in the national movement for an Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s. A strike by Leeds women clothing workers was initiated after the union accepted a low wage rise that discriminated against women. 20,000 women from 45 factories marched in protest on February 1970. Then a national WLM conference was held in London in 1977. And lastly the conference was notable for the appearance of 'revolutionary feminism' led by Sheila Jeffreys in1977.