Perhaps what's so difficult for modern feminists is accepting that, in Shrew, the personal is just personal.

Cohen was labelled as a feminist and her actions taken as a suffragist in Britain helped modern feminists look at their development over time.

This has made it difficult to classify Wollstonecraft as a modern feminist as they believe men and women are equal in all things.

She appeals, of course, to modern feminists - although her need for men was great and her judgment in them bad.

This particular argument has led many modern feminists to suggest that Wollstonecraft intentionally avoids granting women any sexual desire.

By today's standard, 2012, these men in government would appear to be in consensus with modern feminists.

Some of the bigger issues that modern feminists choose to address are that of gender violence, reproductive rights, derogatory language, sexual harassment.

To the Editor: David Brooks doesn't include an underlying cause of efforts to reduce family violence: modern feminists.

Some modern Mexican feminists point to the historical importance of these soldaderas as a milestone in women's rights.

Not really built for childbearing - and, after all, a modern feminist, a career-woman, had no place in her life for the bother of children.