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New Woman

Noun

Meaning

New Woman (plural New Women)

(historical) An educated, independent feminist of the late 19th century.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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In the 1890s Somerville helped fashion the “New Woman”; a century later….the college has set itself the perhaps greater challenge of educating the "New Man." Source: Internet

Carter, p. 120 Cecelia Beaux considered herself a " New Woman ", a 19th-century women who explored educational and career opportunities that had generally been denied to women. Source: Internet

The Monster in the Bedroom: Sexual Symbolism in Bram Stoker's Dracula Carol A. Senf reads the novel as a response to the powerful New Woman, Senf, Carol A. The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century English Literature. Source: Internet

The New Woman: Feminism in Greenwich Village 1910–1920. Source: Internet

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