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Feminist movement

noun

The movement aimed at equal rights for women. Synonyms: feminism, women's lib, women's liberation movement.

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... producing a new argument for a new philosophy. I give two instances to cover the kind of thing I mean. Bernard Shaw (being honestly eager to put himself on the modern side in everything) put himself on the side of what is called the feminist movement; the proposal to give the two sexes not merely equal social privileges, but identical. To this it is often answered that women cannot be soldiers; and to this again the sensible feminists answer that women run their own kind of physical risk, while ...

— George Bernard Shaw • Gilbert K. Chesterton

Words linked to "Feminist movement" : effort, women's rightist, libber, feminist, women's liberationist, campaign, drive, crusade, movement, cause