Meaning of feminism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The state of being feminine; femininity. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. The state of being feminine; femininity.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
3. 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
4. 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.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“His hair is delicate and silky, and of a light chesnut[sic]—one of M. Lorrain's signs of feminism.”

“Women are still forbidden to smoke there... Ardent though we are in feminism, we applaud this stand...”

“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.”

“Ooh! “Even the ladies!” #feminism #confedera-she !”

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