Citations:neofeminism

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English citations of neofeminism

  • 1984, James Phillip McAuley, Quadrant - Volume 28, page 55:
    The general culture has greeted first shoots of neofeminism with sighs of relief, since in its concession of sex differences neofeminism seems more rational and realistic than feminism.
  • 1999 October 15, Aidan Nichols, Christendom Awake: On Re-Energising the Church in Culture, W.B. Eerdmans, →ISBN, →OL, page 118:
    A characteristic speculative development in neofeminism is the notion of a specifically female nature, of a radical fissure, then, within the human race creative effectively of a duality of species, and so of an absolute difference in origin between men and women.

feminism that is not exclusive of men[edit]

  • 1989, Beatrice Bruteau, “The Unknown Goddess”, in Shirley J. Nicholson, editor, The Goddess Re-Awakening: The Feminine Principle Today, Quest Books, →ISBN, →OL, pages 76–77:
    The first thing that needs to be clearly understood whenever one speaks of the new feminine consciousness, or neofeminism, is that it is not a consciousness or a movement for women alone but for women and men together. It is precisely separation and exclusivism that neofeminism rejects.

post-feminism[edit]

  • 2005 March 30, Celeste Hutchins with Christi Denton, “What is Neofeminism?”, in Dawn Keetley, John Pettegrew, editors, Public Women, Public Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism, volume 3, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →OL, page 496:
    But what's the point in arguing about it, when with the wave of the magic prefix wand, post-feminism becomes past tense, and a new movement (re)emerges. Neofeminism. Because post-feminism sucked.

postmodernist feminism[edit]

  • 2008 January 1, Imad Fawzi Shueibi, How a Female Thinks[1], Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, →OL:
    It also goes beyond the neofeminism (postmodernist feminism) which is characterized by criticizing the masculine intellectual individualism (pallogocentrism) and rejecting the male's centralism that was no more than a continuity of the European tendency for centrality.

sexually liberated feminism[edit]

  • 2011 March 28, Alistair Fox, Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 112:
    [] its focus on self-realization achieved through a liberated eroticism answered to the zeitgeist, which, as Hilary Radner has shown, from the late 1980s onward has produced a distinct line of films informed by the values of “neo-feminism,” a doctrine of self-fulfillment advocated by, among others, Helen Gurley Brown, the former editor of Cosmopolitan.