masculinism

English

Etymology

From masculine +‎ -ism, as opposed to feminism.

Noun

masculinism (usually uncountable, plural masculinisms)

1. An ideology of masculinity or of male rights; especially an ideology opposed to feminism.
   • 1981 August 15, Cliff Flanders, “Anti-Masculinists”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 4:

     While only women can participate in the building of a feminist culture, without the interference — however well-intentioned — of men, men can facilitate that process by refusing to participate in the old order of masculinism.

   • 1996, Peggy Watson, "The Rise of Masculinism in Eastern Europe", chapter 6 of Monica Threlfall (editor), Mapping the Women’s Movement, Verso, →ISBN, page 216:

     […] the transition to liberal capitalism offers men the opportunity of putting a greatly increased social distance between themselves and women. It is the rise of masculinism which is the primary characteristic of gender relations in Eastern Europe today.

   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     […] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: […]

   • 2002, Stephen M. Whitehead, Men and Masculinities, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 115:

     Each is laden with assumptions and appropriations that, in discursive terms, reinforce a culture of masculinism – the cultural dominance of the male (in the public sphere).

   • 2007, Satoshi Ikedia, “Masculinity and masculinism under globalization: Reflections on the Canadian case”, chapter 6 of Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Janine Brodie (editors), Remapping Gender in the New Global Order, Routledge, →ISBN, page 112:

     However, it is possible to examine the broader historical contours of masculinism – the ideology that justifies male domination – and the masculinist institutions that endorse masculinism […]

2. Mannishness
   • 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)‎^[1]:

     The greater part of these various anatomical peculiarities and functional anomalies point, more or less clearly, to the prevalence among inverts of a tendency to infantilism, combined with feminism in men and masculinism in women

Synonyms

• masculism

Related terms

• masculinist

Translations

masculism — see masculism

See also

• feminism, feminist, egalitarianism, equalism.