While researchers disagree on when the feminist movement began, most agree that it occurred within the last two centuries. The feminist movement has generally sought, and often successfully, equality between the sexes. For example, the women's movement won women the right to vote, pushed women out of the kitchen, and, in many ways, made women socioeconomically competitive with men. Nonetheless, all these achievements, and the women's (or feminist) movement itself, are largely the product of the last 200 years. However, feminist women per se have been around much longer. An example of a classical feminist would be Antigone, an imaginary woman described by Sophocles in the fifth century BC. In a way, Antigone also displays some characteristics of a modern feminist. Antigone demonstrates feminist logic for the first time when she chooses to challenge a powerful male establishment. This institution, personified by his uncle Creon, has an entire army to defend it, and is usually challenged by entire city-states like Argos, not by a single "fire-eating" woman (3) and her bumbling sister. The challenge comes across as both a defiance of Creon's laws in Antigone's burying of Polyneices and a verbal attack directed at Creon himself. Antigone bluntly says to Creon as he questions her: Sorry, who issued this edict? Was it God? Is not a man's right to burial decreed by divine justice? I don't consider your pronunciations so important that I can simply . . . nullify the unwritten laws of heaven. [original ellipsis]You are a man, remember. . . .I dare say you think I'm a fool. Maybe you're not so wise either. (12) [ellipsis added]The last three lines suggest Antigone's feminist position: she almost calls Creon a... medium of paper... er, 7th ed. New York: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999. Kitto, H. D. F. "Sophocles' Invention of the Third Actor Expanded the Scope of Drama." In Readings on Sophocles, edited by Don Nardo. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1997.Segal, Charles Paul. "Sophocles' Praise of Man and the Conflicts of Antigone." In Sophocles: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Thomas Woodard. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966. Sophocles. Antigone, trans. by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Adventures in Appreciation/Pegasus Edition. Orlando: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Publishers, 1989. “Sophocles” In Literature of the Western World, edited by Brian Wilkie and James Hurt. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1984. Watling, E.F. Introduction. In Sophocles: The Theban Comedies, translated by E. F. Watling. New York: Penguin Books, 1974.