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Heterodoxy was the name adopted by a feminist debating group in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the early 20th century. [1] It was notable for providing a forum for the development of more radical conceptions of feminism than the suffrage and women's club movements of the time. [2]
It was the first women's rights convention to be chaired by a woman, a step that was considered to be radical at the time. [56] That meeting was followed by the Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850 , the first women's rights convention to be organized on a statewide basis, which also endorsed women's suffrage.
"Radicalism" or "radical liberalism" was a political ideology in the 19th century United States aimed at increasing political and economic equality. The ideology was rooted in a belief in the power of the ordinary man, political equality, and the need to protect civil liberties.
The French Radical Party (1937–1938) was a similar small anti-communist splinter, led by André Grisoni. These two small groups merged in 1938 as the short-lived Independent Radical Party, which was itself restored after the Second World War and was a founding organisation of the Alliance of Left Republicans.
More conservative lesbian newsletters at the time such as Lesbian Tide and The Ladder rejected the notions of the manifesto and saw it too radical. Other lesbians rejected the woman-identified label expressing their discomfort in it blurring lines of heterosexual and homosexual women and, despite the stigma surrounding the name, instead opted ...
Combahee member Barbara Smith's definition of feminism that still remains a model today states that, "feminism is the political theory and practice to free all women: women of color, working-class women, poor women, physically challenged women, lesbians, old women, as well as white economically privileged heterosexual women. Anything less than ...
Radical of an integer, in number theory, the product of the primes which divide an integer; Radical of a Lie algebra, a concept in Lie theory Nilradical of a Lie algebra, a nilpotent ideal which is as large as possible; Left (or right) radical of a bilinear form, the subspace of all vectors left (or right) orthogonal to every vector
The 1920s (pronounced "nineteen-twenties" often shortened to the "' 20s" or the "Twenties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1920, and ended on December 31, 1929. . Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918), the decade is frequently referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" in America and Western ...