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From: gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Is there a definition of Feminism?
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Date: 9 Oct 90 01:44:06 GMT
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judy@altair.la.locus.com (Judy Leedom Tyrer):
#feminism (n) - the belief that women and men should be allowed equal
#        opportunities within society and that these opportunities should
#        not be based on social prejudices based upon sexual stereotypes.

In article <86828@aerospace.AERO.ORG> gcf@mydog.UUCP writes:
$The problem with this sort of definition is that it covers only
$part of feminism.

In article <1190@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> marla@Eng.Sun.COM (Marla Parker) writes:
>This "part" of the definition seems to be the only common idea
>that everyone includes in their definition of feminism.

In *practice*, the only part that most feminists agree is that
women should have more rights.