biofascist

English

Etymology

From bio- +‎ fascist.

Adjective

biofascist (comparative more biofascist, superlative most biofascist)

1. Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to biofascism.
   • 2000, Kerwin Kay, “Introduction”, in Kerwin Kay, Jill Nagle, Baruch Gould, editors, Male Lust: Pleasure, Power, and Transformation, page xix:

     As such men struggle to forge positive sexual identities, they must confront painful intersections of desire and oppression: white supremacist fantasies of hypersexuality, hyposexuality, or presumed perversity; heterosexist sentiments of disgust; erasures of desire imposed by societal expectations of people with disabilities or the aged; biofascist loathing for transsexual "freaks."

   • 2011, Adele E. Clarke, Janet Shim, “Medicalization and Biomedicalization Revisted: Technoscience and Transformation of Health, Illness and American Medicine”, in Anne Rogers, Bernice A. Pescosolido, Jack K. Martin, Jane D. McLeod, editors, Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing: A Blueprint for the 21st Century‎^[1], page 187:

     Critical bioethicist Murray (2009) views the conjuncture of contemporary biomedicalization, neoliberalism, and biosocial/biocultural discourses as ultimately biofascist in relentlessly promoting biomedical approaches that seek not only exclude but also to delegitimate alternative approaches to broader ethical considerations.

   • 2015, Mark Kingwell, Measure Yourself Against the Earth: Essays, page 72:

     Elaine was the match his parents wanted, after all. Another victory for bourgeois righteousness and biofascist norms.

Noun

biofascist (plural biofascists)

1. A proponent or supporter of biofascism.
   • 1993, Charlene Spretnak, “Earthbody and Personal Body as Sacred”, in Carol J. Adams, editor, Ecofeminism and the Sacred, page 268:

     Then, too, there are poor reasons to reject the female metaphor for Earth: a man insisted to me that such identification is “very dangerous,” alluding to the patriarchal fear that women are always just a hairsbreadth away from turning into monstrously powerful biofascists.

   • 2008, James Aho, Kevin Aho, Body Matters: A Phenomenology of Sickness, Disease, and Illness‎^[2], page 7:

     Specifically, he [Ivan Illich] seemed to be saying that biomedicine is a zero-sum game of sorts, a matter of “biological accountants” or worse, “biofascists”—doctors, drug manufacturers, and hospital managers—inflicting their wills on masses of powerless and innocent victims: us.

   • 2013, Nicholas Wilson, Selected Short Stories Featuring Analog Memory, unnumbered page:

     Now it's possible that while being leery of her, some ounce of my disdain for people who surgically modify themselves to be cool leaked out, but she turned around and called me a biofascist.