Meaning of ladettism | Babel Free

Definitions

Ladettish behaviour; the condition or characteristics of a ladette.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“Ladettism was postfeminist in that it was predicated on assertions about female power constructed through rhetoric, practices and imagery that affirmed the self-determination, supremacy, and cultural dominance attributed “masculine” subject positions and male-oriented cultural forms.”

“Subtly but significantly different from ladettism, whose template was a doeeyed and football-shirted take on the gamine rather than the glamour girl’s campy excess and abundance, Kenickie’s was not an identity which sat comfortably within Britpop.”

“Her look for the single was a feminine reclaiming of sleaze and camp, an unfashionable identity in the 90s which differed from that of Riot Grrl, from “ladettism” and from the heroin-chic look of Kate Moss.”

“A friend of mine — we'll call her Bridget — lived the other ‘90s Third Wave feminist cliché: ‘ladettism’. A wholly British phenomenon, ladettism had unlikely roots in a macho, working-class subculture.”

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