feminism 
femi·nism (fem′ə niz′əm)
noun
- Rare feminine qualities
- the principle that women should have political, economic, and social rights equal to those of men
- the movement to win such rights for women
Etymology: < L femina, woman + -ism
feminism
n.
Converse of object
- think: What the movers and shakers think feminism is all about.
- do: I don?t know if it?s a feminist show but it does support feminism.
- include: Fashion and Fetishism is concerned with the idea of the corset throughout history yet covers important and controversial issues including feminism and abortion.
- see: Or, could it be that men see feminism as nothing more than the propagation of gender equality?
- have: We provide a synopsis below, based on our proposal and arguments at a debate " Has feminism gone too far?
- believe: A feminist herself, Cronin nonetheless believes that feminism has got itself into a mess by denying the findings of modern science.
Adjective modifier
- radical: These moves are arguably more in keeping with radical feminism than the stereotype of moderate liberal feminism outlined above.
- militant: The fact is that, in a similar way to militant feminism, the battle has been won.
- Marxist: In practice, relations between Marxist feminism and the Marxism in the mixed groups proved to be difficult.
- liberal: These moves are arguably more in keeping with radical feminism than the stereotype of moderate liberal feminism outlined above.
- evangelical: The past decade has seen the rise of a movement " evangelical feminism, " that has had a profound impact.
- socialist: The picture implied by the " distillation " approach of a liberal feminism leading into a socialist feminism is simply historically wrong.
Modifies a noun
- today: I feel left out, not catered for by feminism today.
Noun used with modifier
- postmodern: Rather than reversing the dualism, postmodern feminism seeks to dissolve the distinction.
- wave: I feel very much a child of second wave feminism.
- 1970s: This is part of the postmodern critique of 1970s feminism.
- century: And not all conventional historians have ignored or misunderstood the radically individualist nature of 19th century feminism.
Preposition: in
- century: Black feminism in the 21st century: The Age of Women?
- 1960s: From the most recent phase of feminism in the 1960s there has developed a number of distinct feminisms.
Preposition: for
- generation: Finally, Natasha, you wrote " The New Feminism " and edited " On the Move: feminism for a new generation.
There is no'beginning'of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.
A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed, it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.
The cardinal tenets of feminism divided my generation, effectively disempowering and disenfranchising its members. It does make me bitterlyangry that my generation, which prided itself so complacently on its soul, on its powers of intelligence and analysis, should have fallen so cloddishly for totalitarian simplicities which declared a war of eternal opposition between men and women.
Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
'I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,'she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always those damned dishes.
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