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Womens' views of each other & their roles over time & by age are explored with data from the Kirkpatrick Feminism Scale, which was administered to 107 mother-daughter pairs in 1934 & 1974, & to 141 Rs whose mean age was 70 in 1977. Findings reveal that the modern women's liberation movement has little impact on the life of the older woman, because many of the current issues, eg, abortion, are no longer relevant to her life. In cases where she has become more feminist, it is more attributable to "having lived through 40 or more years of social changes" affecting women than particular issues associated with the liberation movement. Although future generations of older women may be more feminist, significant attitudinal change will occur slowly. The effort to deal with the undesirable dualism that exists in the public/private domains of women's lives or the liberal/radical aspects of the feminist movement requires that the contingency-inconsistency view of lives throughout generations be used with the historical view of women, & that ageism & sexism must be taken into account. L. Holland