... " (Soukhanov 405) is one of the definitions used by the dictionary to describe Feminism. The history of feminism takes us as far as the sixth century BC in Greece, when Sappho wrote lesbian poetry and ran a school for girls. Another great feminist was Christine de Pisan, who broke traditional rules of writing, and in the early 1400s published autobiographical novels in ... ...

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... to participate successfully in more respectable occupations, such as writing. Many of these women concentrated on those matters that most affected them, devoting themselves to their own sex. For example Sappho, a seventh-century poetess, dedicated many of her love-songs to other woman and girls. In addition, Erinna, a fourth-century poetess, is famous for a poem she wrote in memory of her ... ...

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