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pro-woman en · ADJ

Etymology

From pro- + woman.

Meanings

1. In favor of or supporting women.
   • Overtly pro-woman works such as Moderata Fonte's Il merito delle donne (The Worth of Women, 1600), explicitly integrated women's knowledge of medicine and natural philosophy into an overt and wideranging defense of women. 2015, Meredith K. Ray, Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, →ISBN:

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