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I am strong, so I am invincible, invincible, I am one.

Feminism has shaped the lives of everyone in our country.

Now, when did it begin? We usually go back to, well, people like Betty Friedan

and the feminine mystique in the 1960s and 70s.

But does it go farther back than that, tracing its way through the suffragettes

even before that?

And did those suffragettes of the 19th century?

Did they have their woman's movement co-opted by second wave feminism?

Turns out they didn't.

Welcome back to Issues, etc.

I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us for part one on the history and future of feminism.

Dr. Carey Grass, she's a married mother of five children in Virginia,

a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center,

an author of several books, including her latest,

The End of Woman, How Smashing the Patriarchy, has destroyed us.

Dr. Grass, welcome.

Thank you. It's so great to be with you today.

You say that feminism's failure at its root is its misdiagnosis of what ails women.

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