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- noun A
philosophical tradition anticipating modernfeminist concepts before their arrival.
Etymologies
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proto- + feminism
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Examples
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Late nineteenth-century 'protofeminism'2 emerged during an era of feverish bourgeois consolidation, and was comprised of a small collective of privileged women of the newly emergent educated middle class.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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The movie turns on its head the '50s stereotype of single gals preying on family men in the workplace, and in doing so passes for protofeminism.
Baltimore City Paper 2010
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