feminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: feminisms
Etymology: From French féminisme circa 1837, ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). First recorded in English in 1851, originally meaning "the state of being feminine." Sense of "advocacy of women's rights" is from 1895.
Senses: examples: text: His hair is delicate and silky, and of a light chesnut[sic]—one of M. Lorrain's signs of feminism.
ref: 1875 July 24, The Medical Times and Gazette, volume II, page 105:
glosses: The state of being feminine; femininity.
examples: text: Women are still forbidden to smoke there... Ardent though we are in feminism, we applaud this stand...
ref: 1926 November 27, “The Talk of the Town”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, page 17:
text: There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). Alongside and often overlapping with older-identified distinctions between liberal, socialist, radical and cultural feminisms, for example (important as they are in their different accounts of sexual difference and gender power), are variously named black, third-world ethnic-minority feminisms, themselves far from homogenous.
ref: 1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, page ix-x:
text: Ooh! “Even the ladies!” #feminism #confedera-she !
ref: 2017, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
glosses: A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
Hyponyms: Afro-Brazilian feminism
Afrofeminism
Afro-feminism
analytical feminism
analytic feminism
anarcha-feminism
anarchist feminism
anarcho-feminism
anti-abortion feminism
capitalist feminism
Chicana feminism
choice feminism
cultural feminism
cyberfeminism
cyborg feminism
difference feminism
differential feminism
dominance feminism
ecofeminism
ecological feminism
embedded feminism
entrepreneurial feminism
environmental feminism
equality feminism
equity feminism
Eurofeminism
Euro-feminism
evolutionary feminism
fifth-wave feminism
first-wave feminism
fourth-wave feminism
gender-critical feminism
gender feminism
Goddess feminism
guerrilla feminism
Guerrilla Feminism
hip-hop feminism
housewife feminism
indigenous feminism
international feminism
labor feminism
liberal feminism
lipstick feminism
magical feminism
magic feminism
mainstream feminism
material feminism
maternal feminism
nego-feminism
neo-feminism
neofeminism
networked feminism
new feminism
New Feminism
opportunity feminism
Orthodox feminism
Orthodox Jewish feminism
outcome feminism
paleo-feminism
paleofeminism
pop feminism
postfeminism
post-feminism
postmodern feminism
postmodernist feminism
power feminism
proto-feminism
protofeminism
radical feminism
revolutionary feminism
right-wing feminism
second-wave feminism
sex-negative feminism
sex-positive feminism
sex-radical feminism
snail-sense feminism
social feminism
social justice feminism
standpoint feminism
state feminism
stealth feminism
Stiwanism
straw feminism
technofeminism
third-wave feminism
trans feminism
trans-feminism
transfeminism
transnational feminism
victim feminism
whitestream feminism
world feminism
Coordinate terms: masculism
Derived terms: anti-feminism
antifeminism
biofeminism
counterfeminism
femifascism
feminationalism
femonationalism
femvertising
meninism
nonfeminism
parafeminism
postfeminism
post-feminism
prefeminism
pre-feminism
profeminism
pro-feminism
pseudo-feminism
pseudofeminism
STEMinism
unfeminism
xenofeminism
xenofeminist
Related terms: word: femicentric
word: feminazi
word: feminine
word: femininity
word: femininize
word: feminist
word: feministic
word: feministical
word: feministically
word: feminocentric
word: feminocentrism
word: egalitarianism
english: ideology promoting treating the sexes (or other human divisions) equally
translation: ideology promoting treating the sexes (or other human divisions) equally
word: equalism