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feminism
[ fem-uh-niz-uhm ]
noun
- the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- (sometimes initial capital letter) an organized movement for the attainment of such rights for women.
- Older Use. feminine character.
feminism
/ ˈfɛmɪˌnɪzəm /
noun
- a doctrine or movement that advocates equal rights for women
feminism
1- The doctrine — and the political movement based on it — that women should have the same economic, social, and political rights as men. ( See under “Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology.” )
feminism
2- A movement for granting women political, social, and economic equality with men. ( See women's movement .)
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Other Words From
- femi·nist noun adjective
- anti·femi·nism noun
- pro·femi·nism noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of feminism1
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Example Sentences
Here she is in June saying “Trans politics and feminism have never been headed to the same place.”
As my fellow students have eloquently demonstrated, we need feminism.
Unwittingly or not, modern feminism is leaving its disabled sisters out of the discussion.
“Mainstream feminism is riddled with classism, racism, and sexual orientation discrimination,” she wrote.
Lepore has a different, though still linear, metaphor for the history of feminism: “a river, wending.”
None were about the party, but on subjects like 35 "political economy," "the fur trade," "feminism."
Only after serious study of sexual dimorphism in the animal series may one venture a few reflections on feminism.
For if there are in nature numerous examples of feminism, there are very few of an equality of the sexes.
It appears that public opinion in New England was disagreeably impressed by this early manifestation of feminism.
For feminism, in a sense, is a return to atavism, and sex antagonism and sex attraction are functions of the same thing.
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