It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term βfeminism,β to focus on the fact that to be βfeministβ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression. β¨ Ain't I a Woman?. Book by Gloria Jean Watkins, 1981.
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