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To: Mrs.Z

I think feminism is a US invention, which is probably why he left it out.


14 posted on 08/25/2007 9:44:37 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: expatpat

Mary Wollstonecraft penned the first treatis on the rights of women in 1792.

The word “feminism” was first coined in the UK in the 1880’s, and was not used in the US until the 1910’s.


18 posted on 08/25/2007 10:19:01 AM PDT by Mrs.Z
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