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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE radical ▪ Marxist feminism , like radical feminism, regards the relationship between the sexes as political: that is, about power. ▪ Friends, this is radical feminism . ▪ In short, she argues, radical feminism is ...
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Feminism is a broad term given to works of those scholars who have sought to bring gender concerns into the academic study of international politics . In terms of international relations (IR) theory it is important to understand that feminism is derived ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1851, "qualities of females;" 1895, "advocacy of women's rights;" from French féminisme (1837); see feminine + -ism . Also, in biology, "development of female secondary sexual characteristics in a male" (1875).
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n. a doctrine that advocates equal rights for women the movement aimed at equal rights for women [syn: feminist movement , women's liberation movement , women's lib ]
Usage examples of feminism.
They have brought in materialism, atheism, class war, weak happiness ideals, race suicide, social atomism, racial promiscuity, decadence in the arts, erotomania, disintegration of the family, private and public dishonor, slatternly feminism, economic fluctuation and catastrophe, civil war in the family of Europe, planned degeneration of the youth through vile films and literature, and through neurotic doctrines in education.
In the sphere of Society, opposing the chaos of atomism, feminism, disintegration of home and family, race-suicide, and universal decadence, arose the idea of race-ascendancy, fertility, the preservation and integration of society, the return to social health.
It stresses the mutual influences of narratology and deconstruction, feminism, psychoanalysis, and film and media studies.
Their philosophy seems to be a mix of pre-Liberation radical feminism and the environmental primitivism of the eighties.
In its quest for freedom, transgenderism -- like feminism -- often stresses these boundaries.
This kind of critique of feminism originated in the work of African-American critics who pointed out that academic feminism had reproduced the structures of patriarchal inequality within itself by excluding the voices and experiences of black women.
For example, I meet lots of sensitive guys raised in the wake of feminism, who, much like their feminist counterparts, feel guilty about fantasies involving sexual domination.
As for feminism in general, well, my position here was that of the unbudgeably powerful mob boss who, when piqued by bothersome incursions that threaten to sour the whole deal, calls the Ladies in and calmly says, Okay, so you want a piece of this.
Like them, we are bombarded by decadence and false causes in the headlines every day: we hear about racial profiling, gay and lesbian rights, racism and feminism, abortion rights and animal rights and guns and the environment, as if there were no other issues in this country, or in the universe, for that matter.
Indeed, the entertainment industry is one of the few bailiwicks where feminism is still taken seriously.
Quayle rode the rising backlash against affirmative action, foreigners, feminism, and welfare straight into the White House.
She's professional, she listens to me, she did the nude scene on the closed set last week with cool naturalness, she's ambitious in a sensible way, and I can tiptoe round the feminism.
Hadn't Nora Ephron recently joked that the only thing feminism had given women was the privilege of going dutch?
Perhaps the greatest triumph of feminism -- or post-feminism -- will be to free men as well from the sour burdens of the past.