feminism
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English
Etymology
From French féminisme circa 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.
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Noun
feminism (countable and uncountable, plural feminisms)
- (obsolete) The state of being feminine; femininity. [from 1851; less common after 1895]
- 1875 July 24, The Medical Times and Gazette, age 105:
- His hair is delicate and silky, and of a light chesnut — one of M. Lorrain's signs of feminism.
- 1875 July 24, The Medical Times and Gazette, age 105:
- A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
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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.
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2017 October 8, John Oliver, “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, HBO:
- Ooh! “Even the ladies!” #feminism #confedera-she !
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Hyponyms of feminism
Derived terms
Terms derived from feminism
Related terms
Terms related to feminism
Translations
the social theory or political movement
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See also
- egalitarianism, equalism (ideology promoting treating the sexes (or other human divisions) equally)
Swedish
Noun
feminism c
Declension
Declension of feminism
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Common | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative | feminism | feminismen | ||
genitive | feminisms | feminismens |
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