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1951 K. B. Murdock in A. H. Quinn Lit. Amer. People i. iii. 63 She leaned toward a proto-feminist position and insisted that critics should not scorn ‘Female wits’.

1974 Feminist Stud. 2 53 It is also tempting to view at least some of these women, especially those later in the century, as proto-feminists, self-consciously combatting constrictive social institutions and regulations.

1992 Eng. Today July 59/1 A furniture shop in the city centre had ‘everything but the girl’ emblazoned above the shop window, to the disgust of some proto-feminists!