chauvinism
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Her stories are well-told, relevant and often searing, detailing an elementary-school teacher’s slight, a hometown swimming-pool reckoning and chauvinism from an Ivy League club.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
Brie Larson produces and stars in “Lessons in Chemistry” as a scientist who, faced with the chauvinism of 1950s society, channels her passions into a TV cooking show that stirs science into her recipes.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2023
It was precisely that granular aspect of Torvald’s chauvinism that Moayed wanted to explore.
From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2023
Regardless of mentality of chauvinism and misogyny, it is a confusing time to be a 17-year-old girl in any culture.
From Salon • Jul. 7, 2022
It says something about our century, our attitude toward life, our obsession with disease and death, our human chauvinism.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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