[Ads-l] Antedating of "Male Chauvinist" (Adjective)

[dave@wilton.net]

I had found one in the New Yorker from 1940, and a citation of "male chauvinism" from 1932 & 1935. Also "male chauvinist pig" from 1969. (I suspect this last one can be antedated.)
 
Mitchell, Joseph. “Profiles: The Old House at Home.” New Yorker, 13 April 1940, 23/3. New Yorker Archive.
 
Sloper, L.A. “Bookman’s Holiday.” Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Massachusetts), 7 August 1935, Magazine Section 11/1. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
 
Hutchins, Grace. “11 Million Women Are a Big Factor in the Struggle of Toilers Against Bosses.” Daily Worker (New York), 5 March 1932, 4/7. ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
 
Carney, Tom. “Pelted with Paper and Banana Peel.” Kitchener-Waterloo Record (Ontario), 9 August 1969, 2/2. ProQuest Newspapers.
 
[ https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/chauvinism ]( https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/chauvinism ) 
 
 
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Previous antedatings, 1939 and 1935

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>male chauvinist, adj. (OED 1969)
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>1944 The Worker 16 Jan. 22/1 (Newspapers.com)
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>I regret the slip. ... It is a male chauvinist joke, as numerous women have written in to say.
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>Fred Shapiro
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