The contemporary Western women’s movement announced itself in 1963, with Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and that book’s permission to complain – to identify in many ways “the problem that has no name.” Waves of discourse followed, helping Western women see what was “not enough” in many aspects of their lives, such as the low-paying jobs in which men took credit for their work – and pinched their bottoms.
当代西方女权运动发端于1963年，以贝蒂·弗里丹发表的《女性的迷思》一书为标志，该书允许女性去抱怨——那些可以从多方面来定义的“无名的问题”。而此后出版的许多本论著，都是为了帮助西方女性看清她们生活中究竟有什么“不足之处”，比如只能干些报酬低廉的工作，而且好处全给男性占了——甚至还遭到性骚扰。