Word: masculinist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gender terms, AIDS has advanced lesbians to positions of leadership, in part because so many of the erstwhile male leaders are dead or dying. It led many gay women to reconsider their theoretical feminist rejection of homosexual men as simply a more extreme version of the "masculinist" enemy. But some lesbians increasingly complain that despite their new power, their own agenda of women's issues -- including pay equality, affirmative action and legal recognition of gay marriages -- keeps getting pushed aside in deference to the epidemic...
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