Caplan's Definition of Feminism
Why it's wrong and how to fix it
Feminists have sometimes been wary of defining feminism. According to one feminist, “definition is a male prejudice”—“the day we start defining feminism it’s lost its vitality.”1 I don’t know what that means quite, but one worry about defining feminism is that feminism is too intellectually diverse to be responsibly captured by a single definition.
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