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woman question
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Definition:basically the debate over women's rights liberation in the 19th and early 20th centuries
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“But from now on one of our main concerns is to be the Woman Question.”
Ralph Ellison. The Invisible Man (1952)
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A young girl, brought up at home, suddenly jumps into a cab in the middle of the street, saying: 'Good-bye, mother, I married Karlitch, or Ivanitch, the other day!' And you think it quite right? You call such conduct estimable and natural? The 'woman question'? Look here," she continued, pointing to Colia, "the other day that whippersnapper told me that this was the whole meaning of the 'woman question.'
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)
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On the woman question he was on the side of the extreme advocates of complete liberty for women, and especially their right to labor.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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