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foresister

foresister

English

Noun

foresister (plural foresisters)

  1. (feminism) A feminist of an earlier generation.
    • 1984, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In memory of her: a feminist theological reconstruction of Christian origins
      Only then will we be able to adequately tell what our foresisters have done in memory of her.
    • 1999, Deborah F Sawyer, Diane M Collier, Is there a future for feminist theology?
      Of course, women and men are always children of their time, and feminists today are children of their time, sitting on the shoulders of their foresisters even if they do not recognize it.

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