The Society of Cutting Men Manifesto or SCUM Manifesto was written by Valerie Solanas from 1966-1967 and contributed to the women’s liberation movement and radical feminism from the late 1960s until the 1980s. Radical feminists desire a change socially and economically so the system that men built and appointed themselves leaders of will cease to exist. The goal of the radical feminists after this is to make all women equal to men and rewrite the social systems that they previously killed. The Women’s Liberation Movement stemmed from radical feminism, much like radical feminists wanted to change the social conformities women had to live up to, but additionally advocated for a change by protesting and attempting to create reformation in society. According to the University of Portsmouth’s School of Media and Performing Arts Spreading the Word: feminist print cultures and the Women’s Liberation Movement, radical feminism can be described as “…individuals group together to act on behalf of women as a class in opposition to the class enemies of women.” This source gives readers an overview of radical feminism and how it contributed to society during the Women’s Liberation Movement. The popularization of contraceptives and the introduction of birth control contributed to the Women’s Liberation Movement. In The Journal of Social History’s Women’s Body Women’s Rights: A Social History of Birth Control in America, planned parenthood was introduced in 1942 which decreased the use of birth control. The Catholic Church was also very disproving of this practice during the mid-1900s, causing birth control to be outlawed in some states such as Connecticut. The SCUM Manifesto was written at the peak of the Women’s Liberation Movement in the main cities of the United States (Boston, New York City, Chicago, etc.) and was led by Radical Feminists such as Gloria Steinem, Susan Brownmiller, and Kate Millett who Valerie Solanas was influenced by when writing her Manifesto.