BOSTON/Back Bay - Five women active in local, state and national election campaigns appeared for a political roundtable on Saturday, where they urged their audience to run for office and take back the “F-word” in 2010. That’s F for Feminist, and there were dozens of them seated in Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel during a conference hosted by the National Organization for Women.

“We’ve heard Palin’s brand of feminism,” said Adrienne Kimmel, the panel’s moderator and political director of the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, “and felt the anti-incumbent sentiment” that she said should prompt everyone in the room to become politically active this term.