[lit-ideas] Femininism
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:04:09 EDT
M. Chase writes of Elaine Pagels in Gnostic Gospels:
>she presents the Gnostics as
>femininists *avant la lettre*,
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I thought Chase had one [avant la] 'letter' too many -- and that the
expression was "feminist" -- not 'femininist' --. The OED considers a
'femininism'
is however an expression used by women (their example "very pleased") and I
don't think the Gnostics talked like _that_?
Cheers,
JL
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1846 in WORCESTER (citing Phren. Jrnl.), and in mod. Dicts.
"femininism"
1892 F. HALL in Nation 13 Oct. 282/3
The locution [very pleased] has been, all along, in the main a femininism.
1895 Critic 2 Feb. 90/2
The writer depicts Ford as the deepest â??femininistâ?? in the Shakespearian
constellation.
1902 BEERBOHM Around Theatres (1924) I. 365
Ibsen's femininistic propaganda.
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