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From: gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
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Subject: Re: Is there a definition of Feminism?
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Date: 16 Oct 90 15:22:14 GMT
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#In *practice*, the only part that most feminists agree is that
#women should have more rights. 

In article <12445@chaph.usc.edu> wilber@usc.edu (John Wilber) writes:

>I hate to pick nits (well, not really ;-), but a more proper way of putting it
>would be that feminists agree that women have the same rights as men and
>those rights should be recognized.  Under some definitions, I am a feminist,
>but not really under the "more rights for women" definition.  

Do you know even one large feminist group that has fought against 
women's rights and/or extra-rights?

Do you know even one large feminist group that has not fought for
some women's rights and/or extra-rights?

[Are fighting for rights and fighting for extra-rights the same thing?   - MHN]

If a animal looks like a duck, walk like a duck, and quack 
like a duck, then what is it?