Awakening to Feminism
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I had not believed that feminism had any real relevance to my own life until I decided to attend college. I am old enough to have an appreciation of the changes that the women's movement has made possible, but I did not think of myself as a feminist. I did not believe I needed to. However, I have come to realize the importance for every woman of accepting and embracing the label. Feminism may not be the popular cause it was when I was still too young to embrace the movement, but I believe that women of all ages and all situations must stop thinking of it as a meaningless or distasteful term. Feminism is as relevant and important to women's lives as when it was first coined. According to a recent Time telephone poll, more than two-thirds of American women do not consider themselves feminists (58). While they acknowledge that feminism is important in a broad, abstra
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