Words at Play : Top 10 Authorisms
Definition:
1 : the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes
2 : organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests
About the Word:
A word created by Alexander Dumas in 1873 as feministe and later translated as feminist by G. Vandenhoff:
"The feminists [Vr.freministes] (excuse this neologism) say, with perfectly good intentions, too: All the evil rises from the fact that we will not allow that woman is the equal of man."
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