Antedating of "Libber"

[Fred Shapiro]

libber (OED 1971)

1970 _N.Y. Times_ 10 May (Newspaperarchive)  It didn't make me want to
burn my bra -- but it did send me back to those early women's libbers who
said it all so much better: Ibsen and Shaw.

Fred Shapiro


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