feminism
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English
Etymology
From French féminisme c. 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.
Noun
feminism (countable and uncountable; plural feminisms)
- A social theory or political movement supporting the equality of both sexes in all aspects of public and private life; specifically, a theory or movement that argues that legal and social restrictions on females must be removed in order to bring about such equality.
- 1926 November 27, “The Talk of the Town”, The New Yorker, ISSN 0028-792X, page 17:
- Women are still forbidden to smoke there... Ardent though we are in feminism, we applaud this stand...
- 1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, pages ix-x:
- 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.
- 1926 November 27, “The Talk of the Town”, The New Yorker, ISSN 0028-792X, page 17:
Translations
the social theory or political movement
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