victim feminism

English

Noun

victim feminism (uncountable)

1. (derogatory) A form of feminism predicated on the idea that women are weak or lack agency and therefore need to be protected.

   Coordinate term: power feminism

   • 2005, Drude von der Fehr, Anna Jonasdottir, Bente Rosenbeck, Is There A Nordic Feminism?, page 216:

     In the field of sexuality, victim feminism is anti-sexual whereas power feminism believes that what every woman does with her body and in her bed is her own business.

   • 2007, Alyson Manda Cole, The Cult of True Victimhood, page 50:

     Wolf offers a long list of attributes of victim feminism that she detects in a host of feminist activities, institutions, and texts.

   • 2014, Rebecca Stringer, Knowing Victims, page 33:

     […] in the service of new narratives in which victim feminism is presented not just as obsolete or wrong-minded, but as perniciously victimizing.