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From: garys@bunker (Gary M. Samuelson)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Definition of Feminism
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Date: 17 Aug 89 18:43:45 GMT
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[I changed the subject line as the original appeared to refer to a current
flame war in soc.women and was not relevant to the article - MHN]


In article <46655@oliveb.olivetti.com> jan@Arezzo.orc.olivetti.com (Jan Parcel) writes:
>The definition
>of feminism is to desire that society treat people according to their 
>individual traits, as you recommend, rather than their gender.

Then why is it called "feminism" (from the Latin "femina," woman)?
Why isn't it called "egalitartianism," for example?

Gary Samuelson