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feminist movement

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Noun1.feminist movementfeminist movement - the movement aimed at equal rights for women
crusade, campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement - a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort"

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And for some Muslim women, the American feminist movement has become too narrowly identified with issues that are not their top priorities, such as abortion and lesbian rights.
Talhami emphasized that "the American feminist movement has always stressed electoral rights, political rights, education, the glass ceiling, and sexual freedom.
Despite the novel's uneasiness regarding women's sexuality, Oreo embraces feminist ideology, even to the point of critiquing degrading images that were mainly ignored by the feminist movement of the 1960s:
 
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