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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The Reaganite values that most endure are the reactionary ones: his hostility toward civil rights, feminism, and the welfare state.
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Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
In the first season, Harper Stern—a Black American trainee at the bank—finds her allegiances torn between two bosses: Daria Greenock, a white Millennial fluent in the rhetoric of corporate feminism, and Eric Tao, an Asian American Gen Xer feared for his ruthlessness.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2024
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.
—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
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Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
In the first season, Harper Stern—a Black American trainee at the bank—finds her allegiances torn between two bosses: Daria Greenock, a white Millennial fluent in the rhetoric of corporate feminism, and Eric Tao, an Asian American Gen Xer feared for his ruthlessness.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2024
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.
—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
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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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