Some speculate about a reaction to more strident feminists who saw in the matronly honorific a symbol of male oppression.
Once in control, they begin a process of systematic male oppression by blaming them for nearly exterminating the species.
Instead, Schmidt wastes space with long, dreary quotes from a feminist classicist stuck on the usual dated ideology of male oppression.
Not according to feminist and other advocacy groups whose ideology equates battering with male oppression of women.
It was not so much a growth as a separation from black civil rights groups because the main focus was male oppression.
Stereotypes of women as meek and nonaggressive or as victims of male oppression create a certain blindness.
Her Beatrice is sarcastic yet not a shrew, a proto-feminist who can fall for a man without becoming blind to male oppression.
Studying male oppression and violence - an increasingly prevalent theatrical theme - the author leaves us with a cautionary message.
Mainly middle-class, they often have little or no concept of the lives of working-class women, who are still the real victims of male oppression.
Wallace examines Greer's rape at a football club barbecue, a trauma that she later publicized as emblematic of male oppression.