- 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
Origin of feminism
from Classical Latin femina, woman + -ism
noun
Feminism is defined as a movement for equal rights for women.
The women who fought to have the right to vote, called Suffragettes, are an early example of feminism.
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noun
- Belief in or advocacy of women's social, political, and economic rights, especially with regard to equality of the sexes.
- The movement organized around this belief.
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Noun
(countable and uncountable, plural feminisms)
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Sentence Examples
- I also want to briefly challenge organizations on the revolutionary left such as the SWP who are critical of feminism and women's autonomy.
- By the late 1960s, feminism and the equal rights movement were in full swing.
- Sexologist Havelock Ellis considered nudism to be an extension of the dress reform movement for women, and Maurice Parmelee saw it as a powerful adjunct to feminism.
- Female androids elicit debates of misogyny, sexual exploitation and even the roots of essential feminism as they appear in science fiction and fantasy works.
- Girlishness was "in" during the 1980s, which many saw as a backlash against the feminism of the 1970s.
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