The birth of anachronism: “feminism during the French Revolution”
Disciplines
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French
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The feminist neologisms and feminist sporadically appear in the medical vocabulary of the 1870s to describe a feminisation of the body and, under the feathers of a successful writer, Alexandre Dumas son, who, in his pamphlet The male woman (1872), tax on feminists as supporters of the cause of women. Ten years later, a journalist Hubertine Auclert, a pioneer of suffragism in France, described his fight as feminist. With the creation of a French Federation of...