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comparative women's movement  

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  • It is useful to both historical and sociological understanding to use the term feminist to describe the organizational activities, as well as the intellectual dialogues, of those networks of women that have consciously challenged male hegemony. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Feminist networks have been international and cosmopolitan in scope. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Women's Movement, Comparative]

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