Protofeminist

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Protofeminist is a term used to define women in a philosophical tradition that anticipated modern feminist concepts, yet lived in a time when the term "feminist" was unknown. ^[1] That is, to the early twentieth century.^{[2] [3]} The utility of this is rejected by some modern scholars, ^[4] in analogous fashion to "postfeminist". (That term is said to have been coined by Toril Moi in 1985 in "Sexual/Textual Politics" to advocate a feminism that would deconstruct the binary between equality-based, or 'liberal' feminism and difference-based or 'radical feminism'".) ^[5]

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1. ^ Botting Eileen H, Houser Sarah L. “Drawing the Line of Equality”: Hannah Mather Crocker on Women's Rights. American Political Science Review (2006), 100: 265-278
2. ^ Cott, Nancy F. 1987. The Grounding of Modern Feminism. New Haven: Yale University Press.
3. ^ Offen, Karen M. 2000. European Feminisms, 1700–1950: A Political History. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
4. ^ Ferguson, Margaret. Feminism in time. Modern Language Quarterly 2004 65(1): 7-27
5. ^ Kavka, Misha. Feminism, ethics, and history; or, What is the 'post' in postfeminism? Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 2002 21: 29

[edit] See also

History of feminism