postfeminist

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pós

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *pósti

Proto-Italic *posti

Old Latin poste

Latin post

English post-

English feminist

English postfeminist

From post- + feminist.

Adjective

postfeminist (comparative more postfeminist, superlative most postfeminist)

1. Pertaining to postfeminism.
   • 2013, Lynn Huffer, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory:

     This has meant also a postfeminist, postqueer shift toward a different Foucault than the one we were obsessed with in the 1980s and nineties. If we still use him, it is usually for purposes other than sex: the rethinking of race, sovereignty, religion, and nation.

Noun

postfeminist (plural postfeminists)

1. One who belongs to the postfeminism movement.
   • 2009 February 8, “What Do Women Want?”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     But to call a group of researchers postfeminist without exploring what exactly that means belittles both feminists and postfeminists alike.