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chauvinismUnreasonable and exaggerated patriotism and pride in one's own country, with a corresponding contempt for other nations. In the mid-20th century the expression male chauvinism was coined to mean an assumed superiority of the male sex over the female.
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But it is also a book for anyone who wants to figure out why homophobia, antifeminism, and a passionate opposition to abortion and premarital sex have become the emotional core of right-wing politics in the United States. Such arraignments are plentiful, but the notion that Hamlet's antifeminism springs from his "unmentioned" grandmother's dalliance is fantastic. In 1957, after she privately acknowledged her own homosexuality, she wrote two letters of support to the lesbian newsletter "The Ladder" in which she linked homophobia with antifeminism. |
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