feminism
noun
fem·i·nism
ˈfe-mə-ˌni-zəm 
: belief in and advocacy of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes expressed especially through organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests
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No matter its critics or the accumulation of derisive labels—corporate feminism, girlboss feminism, lean-in feminism, white feminism—a feminism of self-interested striving is the order of the day.
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Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024
Animated by ancestral wisdom, intimacy, resistance, kinship, concealment, and language, the nine-work show offers a conceptual approach to engaging transnational feminism as an anecdote to patriarchal repression.
—Najha Zigbi-Johnson, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2024
Girls On Film drops weekly episodes on cinema placed in the context of feminism and women’s empowerment.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 July 2024
This dialogue helps to have an idea also about femininity or feminism that is more multifaceted, more pluralistic.
—WWD, 3 July 2024
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Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024
Animated by ancestral wisdom, intimacy, resistance, kinship, concealment, and language, the nine-work show offers a conceptual approach to engaging transnational feminism as an anecdote to patriarchal repression.
—Najha Zigbi-Johnson, ARTnews.com, 29 July 2024
Girls On Film drops weekly episodes on cinema placed in the context of feminism and women’s empowerment.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 July 2024
This dialogue helps to have an idea also about femininity or feminism that is more multifaceted, more pluralistic.
—WWD, 3 July 2024
See all Example Sentences for feminism
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feminism
noun
fem·i·nism
ˈfem-ə-ˌniz-əm
1
: the theory supporting the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes
2
: organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests
Medical Definition
feminism
noun
fem·i·nism
ˈfem-ə-ˌniz-əm
: the presence of female characteristics in males
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