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Feminism

noun

A doctrine that advocates equal rights for women.

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

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"Feminism" Quotes from Famous Books

... nervous, but so coolly and calmly beautiful that they disturbed Carrigan. She raised her hands, her slim fingers crumpling for a moment in the soft, thick coils of her hair. That little movement, the unconscious feminism of it, the way she folded her hands in her lap afterward, disturbed Carrigan even more. What a glory on earth it must be to possess a woman like that! The thought made him uneasy. And she sat waiting, ...

— The Flaming Forest • James Oliver Curwood

... Civic Conference Committee will take up the subject of the Higher Feminism, and in the evening the Hygienic Sex Sisters will confer with the superintendent of our school system on several ideas for our schools ...

— Best Short Stories • Various

... recollection of the fierce feminism of some of her acolytes. As most of them were homely, they hated feminine beauty as a sign of weakness. They wanted the woman of the future to be without hips, without breasts, straight, bony, muscular, fitted for all sorts of manual labor, free from the slavery ...

— Woman Triumphant - (La Maja Desnuda) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... been written dealing with Bergson's message to Feminism. This point is not without its importance in our modern life. It must be admitted that the present system of civilization with its scientific campaign of conquest of the material environment has been the work of man's ...

— Bergson and His Philosophy • J. Alexander Gunn

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