[Ads-l] Antedating of "Male Chauvinist" Confirmed

[Shapiro, Fred]

I was able to verify Peter Morris's fine antedating of "male chauvinist" in a paper copy of the New Theatre periodical (see below).  That periodical was a Communist outlet published in New York.

Fred Shapiro


male chauvinist (OED 1940)

1935 New Theatre Nov. 11/3  Alfred Lunt ... gives Petruchio a faint Italian flavor ... It helps, unobtrusively, to make rich and reasonable this character of a dowry-bent male-chauvinist.

Fred Shapiro

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Try this

New Theatre, Volume 2.

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Google search says it contains  the words:
"male- chauvinist . That in Shakespeare's time this was not done"
although it doesn't show up in snippet view.

It does appear to be 1935, or earlier.


------ Original Message ------
>From "Shapiro, Fred" <00001ac016895344-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
To ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Date 26/10/2025 10:56:41
Subject Antedating of "Male Chauvinist"

>male chauvinist (OED 1940)
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>1939 Ruth Gruber I Went to the Soviet Arctic 288 (Google Books)
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>"You're just a male chauvinist," an airplane mechanic took up the defence of women.
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>Fred Shapiro
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