单词 | woman question |
释义 | > as lemmaswoman question woman question n. (with the; also with capital initials) the issue of women's rights, esp. as a matter of political controversy in the 19th cent. ΘΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by sex > opposition to > controversy over rights of women woman question1833 1833 1st Ann. Rep. New-Eng. Anti-slavery Soc. 31 Among the incidents alluded to has been a discussion upon what has been technically called ‘the woman question’. 1857 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 21 Sept. (1954) II. 383 Quite delivered from any necessity of giving a judgment on the Woman Question or of reading newspapers about the Indian Mutinies. 1975 J. Leighton S. de Beauvoir on Woman vii. 208 Simone de Beauvoir's preoccupation with the woman question can clearly be seen as one of the dominant motifs of her work. 2003 Community Care (Nexis) 6 Mar. 22 She has come back to politics clearly marked, on the woman question at least, as a politician of principle and commitment. < as lemmas |
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