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From: wilber@usc.edu (John Wilber)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Is there a definition of Feminism?
Summary: Feminism and Special Treatment
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Date: 11 Oct 90 06:40:36 GMT
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In article <88257@aerospace.AERO.ORG> gcf@mydog.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) writes:

>I don't think this is so.  Antagonists of feminism, whose
>writings are probably available at this very moment in other
>newsgroups, often assert that feminism is nothing but a program 
>to get special privileges for women.  

Certainly this IS the case with many feminist organizations and some
individual feminists.  It sounds like you don't agree.

>But even if it were so, so what?  Are least-common-denominator or
>most-common-intersection definitions necessarily the best ones?
>Or is that not what is being implied?

No, I think the idea was to discover the fundamental idea behind feminism.
Clearly, "eco-feminism" is is not fundamentally feminist, or at least 
the views of eco-feminists are not characteristic of the majority 
of feminists (like me for example!).