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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)Ìýan organized movement for the attainment of such rights for women.
Older Use.Ìýfeminine character.
feminism
/ ˈ´ÚÉ›³¾ÉªËŒ²Ôɪ³úÉ™³¾ /
noun
a doctrine or movement that advocates equal rights for women
feminism
1The 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.â€)
feminism
2A movement for granting women political, social, and economic equality with men. (See women's movement.)
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- feminist noun
- antifeminism noun
- profeminism noun
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of feminism1
Example Sentences
Assuming a woman is too stupid to know what she's doing, which they are doing to Carpenter, is not feminism.
In this accounting, feminism made women selfish and undesirable, men no longer exhibit sufficient “masculine energy,†and the result is .. wage stagnation?
Pasha is the sympathetic face of Western men beguiled by nostalgia for “traditional†wives unsullied by feminism and high expectations.
It alienated young women who saw this as a rollback of hard-won rights, even as it fuelled the backlash against feminism.
In those, Bartkus voiced despondence over the death of a “best friend,†Sophie, a woman who lived in Washington who ran multiple social media sites espousing radical feminism, veganism and intentional suicide.
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When To Use
Feminism is a doctrine, or principle, that states women should have rights equal to those of men, especially social and political rights.Because feminism is a doctrine, there are many different thoughts about what feminism actually means and how best to achieve the desired equality. There is no unified group of feminists with a single philosophy, but all feminists agree that women are somehow not treated equally to men and that they should be.In the United States, from around 1848 through to 1920, feminism was generally concerned with women’s right to vote (known as women’s suffrage), notably starting at the Seneca Falls Convention.From around 1960, feminism began to be concerned with women’s civil rights and questioned what women’s role in society should be. Scholars are divided on whether the second wave actually ended and, if so, when.Starting in the 1990s, feminism started emphasizing electing women to political offices and majorly fighting against sexual harassment in the workplace. Many feminists at the time also questioned the notion of gender and the stereotypes of male and female societal roles and behavior.Some scholars suggest in the early 2010s, feminists began to focus on furthering better treatment of women. This can be seen by the rapid spread of the Me Too movement.
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