[vintermann]

I don't think the so called "second wave" feminism, driven in large part by housewives rebelling against boredom and expectations of passiveness, got much traction in the Soviet Union. In my country, there were certainly conflicts between the older, socialist oriented feminism and the second wave.

My mother told me she left the women's front because it had been "couped" by socialists. In particular, they opposed pension rights for unpaid care work, because they believed that would encourage women to stay at home, and my mom thought it was a lot more important to value the work women had done than to push them into the wage economy.

Looking into it, though, I think maybe the women's front was socialist dominated from the start, and it was 68er, second wave-ish women like her who were "entering".