Judgments would come from others as they dared to move forward and yet, it was managed. Individual women taking up space could be experienced as threatening (as well as admired). There was a tendency to walk in step, to not break ranks, to move forward in a literal phalanx in a new form of sisterliness that could, at times, stifle. It wasn’t easy, but when support for personal and social change occurred it made us anew. We knew we needed one another as we attempted to break through these barriers. What became critical in second-wave feminism was the joining together of women to understand the many conflicts – internal and external – that would ensue from breaking out of the expectations they had imbibed. Judgments would come from others as they dared to move forward. Judgments would come from themselves if they risked doing so. They knew that as they endeavoured to do so, they would encounter internal constraints and taboos. Second-wave women knew that their power was problematic.
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