Have there ever been other feminists than radical feminists who do not fit the textbook definition?

or has the top always been radical with nothing in common with the textbook definition of feminism, using the true believers as usefull idiots for leverage in their movement ?Have there ever been other feminists than radical feminists who do not fit the textbook definition?
Radical feminism only started appearing in the 1990's with the "third" wave.

Many of the feminist who fought in the British movement , the first movement and the second movement here in America.

Stood for the basic need of equality, not the submission of men.

yes they have used true believers for leverage...even I have supported them with donations.



Edit: then I can agrue that true feminisim started in the 1500's.
Can you give us this textbook definition? Otherwise we cannot truly answer.Have there ever been other feminists than radical feminists who do not fit the textbook definition?
Carole Gilligan, Simone de Beauvoir to name a few of thousands.
I think there is a little bit of feministic features in every woman, more in some in other though thats why we can show it. Those who do not show it and the ones who go along with the sterotypes of women are the ones who make it for us females to be labled as bitches or what not, becuase so many woman cannot stand up for anything.Have there ever been other feminists than radical feminists who do not fit the textbook definition?
The dictionary says that feminism is about equality, but that's like saying that prostitution is about love.



If they are honest, everyone knows the rot was there from the start. The only difference between the radicals and most of the rest is that the radicals were overtly crazy in their hatred of men (e.g. separatist communes etc) whereas many of the others simply (and obviously) disliked and distrusted men e.g. Greer, Oakley etc.



It makes me laugh when feminists claim to be for equality. If you judge people by their behaviour you will see that - at best - they do nothing to stop prejudice and discrimination against men e.g. there were no big feminist protests against the unfair VAWA (domestic violence) laws in the US. But just look at how feminists react to men who wanted a discussion forum on battered husbands: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qodygTkTUYM



Feminists are for equality? If only. There was a point in the late 1960s and early 70s when things could have been different, but the reasonable voices were drowned out by the misandrists, and that set the tone for the feminist movement and Western society up to the present day.
The textbook and dictionary definitions of feminism are way out. They would have us believe that it is about sweetness and light and reasonableness and that feminists have gently-perfumed farts.
The fringe of the movement never fits the textbook definition. It's like people who bomb abortion clinics in the name of saving lives.