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"The Working Mothers films were created and distributed at a particularly propitious historical moment, just far enough into the second wave of feminism (or women's liberation movement as it was then more commonly known) to be informed by this small but rapidly expanding grassroots and intellectual movement but before it had become engaged in the exhausting (though critically necessary) debates and divisions that would absorb it a few years later."
-- Rita Fraticelli


Source:
Fraticelli, Rita. "'Would I Ever Like to Work': The 'Working Mothers' Films and the Construction of Community." In Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada, edited by Michael Brendan Baker, Thomas Waugh, and Ezra Winton. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. (p. 307)