Antedating of "Male Chauvinism"

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Mon Jan 19 16:21:51 UTC 2004


male chauvinism (OED3 1936)

1935 _Christian Science Monitor_ 7 Aug. WM11  Another correspondent
objected to the same comment ... She inquired pointedly if in reviewing
"America's Young Women" we had suggested that it smacked of male
chauvinism.

Fred Shapiro


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