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Women's rights activist
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feminist
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Word definitions for feminist in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1892, from French féministe (1872); also see feminism . As an adjective by 1894. Womanist sometimes was tried as a native alternative. Femalist already had been taken as "courter of woman, a gallant" (1610s).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to or advocating equal rights for women; "feminist critique"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a feminist perspective ▪ If you look at this from a feminist perspective, things are, in fact, not equal. feminist writing ▪ Feminist writing has strongly criticized pornography as treating women as objects rather than ...
Usage examples of feminist.
Americans thought NOW and other leading feminist organizations were selling out, for one and only one reason: Bill Clinton supported their agenda, especially their agenda on abortion.
Not so, boo bala A Feminazi is a feminist to whom the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur.
A dizzying array of critics-creationists, the radical right, civil liberties groups, racial minorities, feminists, and even professional historians-have entered the fray No longer do textbooks get denounced only as integrationist or liberal.
A number of the leftish and feminist groups with whom Carolyn was sometimes aligned are also represented.
As one of the radical critics of reductionist science in the last decades, I have taken my own part in these debates, and I have lived the best part of my life with a feminist sociologist of science whose searching exposure of the nature of a masculinist and largely white science as it is practised in western capitalist societies will soon reveal the weak places in any uncritical defence of a science which refuses to recognize its limitations.
And that creep on TV - Neese - threw the issue around, pegged her as Ms Slice-the-Fetus Radical Feminist.
Feminist critics, and others, have read this case study as a means of psychoanalysing Freud.
And since it was obvious feminists would never use an oil derived from rapeseed, we were all introduced to canola oil.
The nun stepped smoothly in when Roz paused for breath and made a remark about pacifism and Christian forgiveness, and the discussion rapidly shot off onto the question of whether a feminist could be a Christian, and vice versa.
Nor does Phillips indulge in excessive feminist polemics or tendentious slanting of events.
There is little good in history standards that include the legendary escaped slave Harriet Tubman and pioneer feminists at the expense of George Washington or Robert E.
They relished their recklessness, and she had come to understand that it was not an embracing of death, as some feminists insisted, but a zesty drive to slam up against the walls of the world, test the limits.
One feminist publication had brought out a noisy contingent of rabble-rousers who sat near Riesner, trying to engage him in dialog, but Judge Milne imposed silence in his court with a slight raising of the eyebrow.
In part, my apprehensions are explained by my appreciating that many feminist readers of Kundera are plainly offended by his representations of women and by the mistreatment of women found throughout his fiction.
Out of these questions emerge the concerns of innumerable feminists that postmodernism and deconstruction may very well theorize to an abstraction the lived experience of women or divert attention away from mistreatment in the rush to revel in the more playful eccentricities of theory and ambiguity.