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= Feminist criticism of the sexual revolution = Feminist Criticism of the Sexual Revolution refers to the set of criticisms issued by feminists, particularly radical feminists, in the form of books, articles and speeches, about the sexual revolution, a movement that set out to challenge the traditional codes and norms surrounding sex and sexuality. The central claim made by the feminists against the sexual revolution (also called the sexual liberation movement) is that it upheld the sexual oppression of women, male chauvinism and proliferation of pornography. The main critics of the sexual revolution include Andrea Dworkin, Ellen Willis and Catherine A. Mackinnon.

History
The emergence of radical feminism as an autonomous movement conincides with the split of feminist women from the American New Left in the 1960s. Prior to this, there was ideological and organizational differences among feminists within the left. The schism generated broadly three categories of feminists: conservative feminists, like Betty Friedan, whose main aim was the legal and formal equality of women, the Politicos, whose central affiliation lay with various organizations and parties of the left and who fought for equality of women within the Left movement, and finally, the radical feminists, who saw women's oppression as central to their analyses. Radical feminists split from the American Left movement citing the latter's ignorance of women's particular grievances and sidelining of the feminist cause as secterian and not as important as male causes such as draft evasion. The movement that splintered from the broad left wing organizations has been called Second wave feminism.