She would probably be appalled at being called the first American feminist.
But many American feminists would love to trade places.
American feminists have no way of explaining this.
In one he argued with an American feminist that women are "inferior intellectually".
"The Latin American feminists have been almost ahead of us in terms of getting men involved."
"American feminists are so direct in expression," she said.
And they are actually more militant and better organized than American feminists seem to be these days.
But his personal good luck should create no occasion for bad-thing American feminists.
Indeed, she has argued that American feminists should pay more attention to the urgent problems of women elsewhere.
She has a particularly large following among American feminists.