li

lihe (first-person singular)
lihkai (first-person plural)
lihn (second-person singular)
lihken (plural second-person)
liho (singular third-person)
lihk (plural third-person)
lihmen (indefinite singular)
lihpwi (indefinite plural)
liwa (definite singular)
liwa (definite plural)


glass ceiling

A metaphor using ceiling to suggest a barrier to upward mobility, and glass to allude to the often unacknowledged or “invisible” nature of this limitation.
Coined by US author and diversity advocate Marilyn Loden in 1978.

coin

There are fears of hitting a "glass ceiling" beyond which known or suspected gay men and lesbians cannot rise. According to Fortune: "In a 1987 survey by the Wall Street Journal, 66% of major-company CEO's said they would be reluctant to put a homosexual on management committees"

1991 December 15, Kathyrin E. Diaz, “Telling Fortune”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 22, page 7:

Women are “woefully” under-represented in parliament, the courts and the boardroom, with new research showing that the glass ceiling is still holding back 6,000 women from the top 33,000 jobs in Britain.

2007 January 5, Polly Curtis, “Six thousand women missing from boardrooms, politics and courts”, in The Guardian:

[…] it was the genteel chauvinism of the enlightened elites at Kleiner Perkins that carried with it the sting of betrayal. They promised her a meritocracy and gave her a glass ceiling instead: “It just wasn’t fair.”

2017 September 19, Jennifer Szalai, “The Education of Ellen Pao”, in New York Times:

“Has the glass ceiling shattered?” said Bakari Sellers, a political ally of Harris. “No, but it does have another crack.”

2021 November 19, Chris Megerian, quoting Bakari Sellers, “Kamala Harris makes history, again, as first woman with presidential power — for 85 minutes”, in Los Angeles Times:

And yet as we stand amid the metaphorical shards of all those shattered glass ceilings, it’s hard to ignore the fact that empowerment feminism hasn’t really delivered on its promises.

2022 July 29, Lux Alptraum, “Women, the Game Is Rigged. It’s Time We Stop Playing by the Rules.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

“My father really believed at some point that [communism]^([sic]) would be great for humanity, perhaps also because he was facing all the glass ceilings for being a Jewish boy,” she says.

2023 October 14, Raphael Minder, quoting Agnieszka Holland, “Lunch with the FT”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:

(idiomatic) An unwritten, uncodified barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for a member of a specific demographic group.


Xanthippe

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Borrowed from Latin Xanthippē or its etymon Ancient Greek Ξανθίππη (Xanthíppē), the name of Socrates’ wife, from ξανθός (xanthós, “blond; golden, yellow”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱas- (“blond; grey; white”)) + ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eḱ- (“horse; swift (?)”)). She is described as shrewish in Xenophon’s Symposium, though the same work states that Socrates chose her precisely because of her argumentative spirit. In Xenophon’s Memorabilia and Phaedo by Plato she is depicted as a devoted wife and mother.

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Be ſhe as foule as was Florentius Loue, / As old as Sibell, and as curſt and ſhrow'd / As Socrates Zentippe, or a worſe: / She moues me not, or not remoues at leaſt / Affections edge in me.

[c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 213, column 1:

RICHARD HOOKER, that rare and admirable Theologiſt, [...] married a clowniſh ſilly Woman and withal a meer Xantippe, [...]

1691, [Anthony Wood], “RICHARD HOOKER”, in Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume I (Extending to the 16th Year of King Charles I. Dom. 1640), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […], →OCLC, column 262:

[page 235] He was prudent and induſtrious, and ſo good a Huſbandman, that he might have led a very eaſy and comfortable Life, had not an errant Vixen of a Wife ſoured his domeſtic Quiet. [...] [page 236] By this Xantippe (ſo was the Wife of Socrates called, ſaid Partridge) By this Xantippe he had two Sons, of which I was the younger.

1749, Henry Fielding, “In which the Man of the Hill Begins to Relate His History”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII, pages 235–236:

Who has not seen the cross looks and peevish temper of the teacher and parent copied, as by a mirror (though we should say without reflection), in the face and disposition of the child? [...] From an unbroken course of such treatment, who would expect any thing but an unbroken line of Nabals and Xanthippes?

1850 September, W. C. Goldthwait, “Power of Expression”, in W. W. Mitchell, editor, The Massachusetts Teacher, volume III, number 9, Boston, Mass.: Samuel Coolidge, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 286:

What have we seen in our own personal walks through life to make us believe that women are devils? There may possibly have been a Xantippe here and there, but Imogenes are to be found under every bush.

1858, Anthony Trollope, “Louis Scatcherd”, in Doctor Thorne. […], volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 185–186:

The use he [Socrates] made of his domestic trial may be profitably remembered by any that have a Xanthippe to deal with.

1870 July, “Socrates. Part I.”, in Dublin University Magazine, a Literary and Political Journal, volume LXXVI, number CCCCLI, Dublin: George Herbert, […]; London: Hurst & Blackett, →OCLC, page 114, column 1:

The 'kneeling punishment' (罰跪) would seem to be a well recognized mode of enforcing their authority, in use by Chinese Xanthippes, for the proverb says: 'The Henpecked man is obliged to kneel with a lamp on his head [to make it certain that he does not stir] until the morning watch.'

1884 January–February, Arthur H[enderson] Smith, “The Proverbs and Common Sayings of the Chinese. … Puns and Other Linguistic Diversion.—Parodies.”, in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume XV, number 1, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, footnote *, page 14:

(literary, derogatory, dated) An ill-tempered woman.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
Phaedo
Plato
Reyer van Blommendael
Socrates
Xanthippe
Xenophon


bean

PIE word
 *gʷḗn
From Old Irish ben, from Proto-Celtic *benā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

Tá triúr iníonacha agam; tá bean acu trasinscneach.

I have three daughters; one of them is transgender.


cyẅres

cywresau (plural)
cyẅres
gyẅres (soft)
nghyẅres
chyẅres


womyn

From woman and women; respelled so as not to contain the word man or men. Compare myn.

Summoning all my courage, I touched and kissed a womyn for the first time. I cannot describe what I felt at that moment.

1980, Susan J Wolfe, Julia Penelope, The coming out stories:

I dug with my bare hands through the bullshit where beneath I discovered a womyn. She was an incredibly angry womyn, but a womyn nonetheless.

2004, Misty Marie, I Too was a Child...:

And I'm sure you know that so many straight womyn are so miserable that "going to the shrink" has become their major occupation, if they can afford it.

1983, Anita Cornwell, Black Lesbian in White America:

Likewise, simply dismissing post-operative male-to-female transsexuals as "men," and making an artificial distinction between "women" and "womyn" neither justifies their policy, nor eliminates any of the substantive issues involved.

1991 December 22, Davina Anne Gabriel, “Still More On Michigan”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 23, page 4:

Since the publication of the Random House Webster's College Dictionary (RHWCD) in the spring of 1991, no single dictionary entry has been the subject of more discussion, criticism, and controversy than the entry womyn (an alternative spelling of women).

1995, Sol Steinmetz, “Womyn: The Evidence”, in American Speech, volume 70, number 4, page 430:


wimmin

Eye dialect, also used as a feminist spelling of the word women in order to deliberately exclude the word men, which is synchronically a component of women.

This is about wimmin sticking together (bois too), and fighting for equal rights and opportunities for everyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.

2005, Dawn Keetley, Public Women, Public Words, page 425:

So eager was I to meet new wimmin-lovin' wimmin—or even just some womyn-lovin' womyn—one didn't need a Ouija board to figure out that I would fling myself forthwith into the world of regional Amazonia.

2011, Terry Castle, The Professor: And Other Writings, page 215:


misogynist

From Ancient Greek μισογύνης (misogúnēs), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”), equivalent to misogyny + -ist.

One who displays prejudice against or looks down upon women.


GC

en-noun

GC (countable and uncountable, plural GCs)

GCs prove everyday they're actually just critical of trans people, not critical of gender

2021 November 19, Yana (@lesbian_envy), Twitter:

That’s LITERALLY what trans activists say and what GCs are fighting against.

2021 November 28, SophieXY (@SophieXY44), Twitter:

When I pointed out the other day that prominent GCs had been pretty silent on #RoeVsWade or had tried deflecting onto trans people, I had this response from a GC.

2022 June 26, Lee WilliamDesigns (@designs_william), Twitter:

(informal) Initialism of gender critical.


Athena

From Middle English Athena, from Latin Athēna, from Ancient Greek Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ). Doublet of Athina.

The last thing feminist Athenas see about corporate structures, government, or academia is that they are run by benevolent and all-protective fathers.

1989, Jennifer Barker Woolger, Roger J. Woolger, The goddess within:

The latter may become either Athenas or feminists. If one gets a certain sort of male sponsorship, becomes a Daddy's girl, one is allowed to function in these vocations of the righteous […]

1992, Marilyn Frye, Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992, page 141:

Women who do decide to become scientists find themselves under attack from the self-proclaimed "echt" feminists, who call them "Athenas" and "Queen Bees."

1995, Noretta Koertge, Skeptical Inquirer, volume 19, number 2, page 42:

(feminism, derogatory, figurative) A woman who colludes with the patriarchy rather than actively opposing it.


feminism

feminism (countable and uncountable, plural feminisms)

From French féminisme circa 1837, ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). First recorded in English in 1851, originally meaning "the state of being feminine." Sense of "advocacy of women's rights" is from 1895.

equalism

ideology promoting treating the sexes (or other human divisions) equally

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

1875 July 24, The Medical Times and Gazette, volume II, page 105:

(obsolete) The state of being feminine; femininity.


feminism

head

feminism (genitive feminismi, partitive feminismi)

feminismi (genitive)
feminismi (partitive)
feminism (nominative singular)
feminismid (nominative plural)
feminism (accusative nominative singular)
feminismid (accusative nominative plural)
feminismi (accusative genitive singular)
feminismid (accusative genitive plural)
feminismi (genitive singular)
feminismide (genitive plural)
feminismi (partitive singular)
feminisme (partitive plural)
feminismisid (partitive plural)
feminismi (illative singular)
feminismisse (illative singular)
feminismidesse (illative plural)
feminismesse (illative plural)
feminismis (inessive singular)
feminismides (inessive plural)
feminismes (inessive plural)
feminismist (elative singular)
feminismidest (elative plural)
feminismest (elative plural)
feminismile (allative singular)
feminismidele (allative plural)
feminismele (allative plural)
feminismil (adessive singular)
feminismidel (adessive plural)
feminismel (adessive plural)
feminismilt (ablative singular)
feminismidelt (ablative plural)
feminismelt (ablative plural)
feminismiks (singular translative)
feminismideks (plural translative)
feminismeks (plural translative)
feminismini (singular terminative)
feminismideni (plural terminative)
feminismina (essive singular)
feminismidena (essive plural)
feminismita (abessive singular)
feminismideta (abessive plural)
feminismiga (comitative singular)
feminismidega (comitative plural)


feminism

feminism (accusative indefinite nominative)
feminismul (accusative definite nominative)
feminism (indefinite)
feminismului (definite)
feminismule (vocative)


feminism

feminism (indefinite nominative singular)
feminisms (genitive indefinite singular)
feminismen (definite nominative singular)
feminismens (definite genitive singular)


dynes

dynesau (plural)
dynes
ddynes (soft)
nynes

From dyn (“man; person”) + -es (feminine suffix).


gynocentrism

We Americans have not so much need to take his admonitions to heart as Continental Europeans, seeing that captious critics are prone to regard us as suffering rather from gynocentrism than anthropocentrism.

1897, “Book Reviews and Notes”, in The Open Court, volume 11, page 575:

An ideological focus on females, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-females.


androcentrism

An ideological focus on males and men, and issues affecting them, possibly to the detriment of non-males.


gynocentric

en-adj

gynocentric (comparative more gynocentric, superlative most gynocentric)

more gynocentric (comparative)
most gynocentric (superlative)

Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting gynocentrism; focused on females.


androcentric

androcentric (comparative more androcentric, superlative most androcentric)

more androcentric (comparative)
most androcentric (superlative)

Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting androcentrism; focused on males.


thealogy

en-noun

thealogy (countable and uncountable, plural thealogies)

From Ancient Greek θεά (theá, “goddess”) + -logy.

The study of or reflection upon the or a goddess, or the feminine divine, e.g. from a feminist viewpoint.


suffragette

/ˌsʌf.ɹəˈd͡ʒɛt/

From suffrage + -ette, first used as a derisive label by the Daily Mail in 1906, but eventually adopted by the WSPU itself.

Perhaps no single location resonates for women’s rights campaigners today as much as Holloway, the first female-only prison, where militant suffragettes were incarcerated, went on hunger strike and were savagely force-fed.

2018 February 2, “Smashed windows, broken rules: the dark suffragette sites of London”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2021-07-11:

(historical) A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century, especially in Great Britain.

sufražetka

female supporter of women's right to vote


misogyny

misogyny (usually uncountable, plural misogynies)

From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía) and μισογύνης (misogúnēs, “woman hater”), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”). By surface analysis, miso- + -gyny.

Although she argues against a simplistic conflation of types of prejudice, she suggests that misogyny is typically present in both narcissistic and obsessive forms of anti-Semitic prejudice.

1999, Joanne Marie Greer, David O. Moberg, Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, →ISBN, page 29:

His misogyny, like that of his predecessors, is more than prejudice; […]

1999, Ethel Spector Person, The Sexual Century, →ISBN, page 84:

[…] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: […]

2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

This ontological symbiosis also explains his misogyny. By envying Sue, as the man he cannot become, he projects his self-loathing onto her, trying to diminish what he actually admires.

2005, Jeff Johnson, William Inge And The Subversion Of Gender, →ISBN, page 122:

2006, Jack Holland, Misogyny: the world's oldest prejudice, →ISBN:

[…] I have always found it hard that Hamlet, a character that I love and admire, is guilty of a puerile misogyny and, perhaps, more worryingly, of the unnecessary deaths of his old friends from university, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. When I played him, I could find reasons for the misogyny but half-ignored the murders.

2014 April 12, Simon Russell Beale, “Why Shakespeare always says something new: As the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth approaches, the great Shakespearean actor Simon Russell Beale explains his secrets [print version: The king and I]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R7:

Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women.


óinseach

head

óinseach f (genitive singular óinsí, nominative plural óinseacha)

óinsí (genitive singular)
óinseacha (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
óinseach (indefinite singular)
óinseacha (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a óinseach (indefinite singular)
a óinseacha (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
óinsí (indefinite singular)
óinseach (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
óinsigh (archaic dialectal indefinite singular)
nominative (definite)
an óinseach (definite singular)
na hóinseacha (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na hóinsí (definite singular)
na n-óinseach (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an óinseach (definite singular)
leis an óinsigh (archaic definite dialectal singular)
don óinseach (definite singular)
don óinsigh (archaic definite dialectal singular)
leis na hóinseacha (definite plural)
óinseach
n-óinseach
hóinseach

From Old Irish óinsech (“foolish or giddy woman”).


seanbhean

head

seanbhean f (genitive singular seanmhná, nominative plural seanmhná)

seanmhná (genitive singular)
seanmhná (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
seanbhean (indefinite singular)
seanmhná (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a sheanbhean (indefinite singular)
a sheanmhná (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
seanmhná (indefinite singular)
seanbhan (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an tseanbhean (definite singular)
na seanmhná (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na seanmhná (definite singular)
na seanbhan (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an tseanbhean (definite singular)
don tseanbhean (definite singular)
leis na seanmhná (definite plural)
seanbhean
sheanbhean
tseanbhean

/ˈʃan̪ˠəˌvʲan̪ˠ/

PIE word
 *sénos
 PIE word
 *gʷḗn
sean- + bean


froe

Abbreviation of obsolete frower, from froward (“turned away”), referring to the orientation of the blade, at right angles to the handle. From late 16th century.

Patch shingles on the barn roof: do we have a maul and froe?

1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 4, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 88:

A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood.


froe

1630, Michael Drayton, Nymphal IV, [from The Muses Elizium], 1793, The Works of the British Poets, Volume 3: Drayton, Carew & Suckling, page 618,
Like to thoſe raging frantic froes / For Bacchus' feaſts prepared;

(obsolete) A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.


pop feminism

So pop feminism distorts feminism by depoliticizing it and burying its complexities, and in so diminished a state it has no power to vanquish the male privilege that women experience in their everyday lives.

1996, Zillah R. Eisenstein, Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century:

Cinematherapy combines a strategic mix of pop feminism (which presumes female independence and “girl power”) and stereotypes, then, as a primary method of appealing to female audiences.

2006, Barbara Klinger, Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home:

[…] strongly associated with a 1990s/early 2000s cultural moment of “pop-feminism,” marked by a high-profile, culturally pervasive, quasi-feminist rhetoric. This rhetoric relied heavily on female celebrities who embraced the “bad girl” stereotype […]

2011, Su Holmes, Diane Negra, In the Limelight and Under the Microscope:

(sometimes derogatory) A populist, non-academic approach to feminism, suggesting that women can attain equality with men through a positive, go-getting attitude, without much need to organize politically or to examine or change cultural institutions and biases.


phallocentric

en-adj

phallocentric (comparative more phallocentric, superlative most phallocentric)

more phallocentric (comparative)
most phallocentric (superlative)

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His shame at what she might on the other hand perceive as his slimy phallocentric conduct toward her made it easier for him to avoid her, as well.

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 25:

Focused on the phallus, especially as a symbol of male dominance; characterised by male attitudes, focused on men.

fal·locèntric

Focus on the phallus or on a male point of view.


Sapphire

I asked her once how a little girl who didn't have blue eyes ended up being called Sapphire. She pursed her lips for a few seconds, clearly wondering how she could get away with not telling me.
'My older brother is called Mistral,' she said in the end. 'My younger sister is Blaze. I'd say I was the lucky one.'
As I say, hippy parents.

2015, Sharon Bolton, Little Black Lies, Corgi Books, →ISBN, page 179:

A female given name from English from the precious stone.


feminist

feminist (comparative more feminist, superlative most feminist)

more feminist (comparative)
most feminist (superlative)

First recorded in English 1852. Ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). See also feminine, feminism.

Feminist struggle takes place anytime anywhere any female or male resists sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

2000 May 1, bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, 2nd edition, page xi:

relating to or in accordance with feminism.


feminist

an advocate of feminism; a person who believes in bringing about the equality of the sexes (of women and men) in all aspects of public and private life

feminis

advocate of feminism; person who believes in bringing about the equality of men and women

女権拡張論者

じょけんかくちょうろんしゃ

a member of a feminist political movement


feminist

head

feminist (definite accusative feministi, plural feministler)

feministi (accusative definite)
feministler (plural)
feminist (nominative singular)
feministler (nominative plural)
feministi (accusative definite singular)
feministleri (accusative definite plural)
feministe (dative singular)
feministlere (dative plural)
feministte (locative singular)
feministlerde (locative plural)
feministten (ablative singular)
feministlerden (ablative plural)
feministin (genitive singular)
feministlerin (genitive plural)
feministim (first-person nominative singular)
feministlerim (first-person nominative singular)
feministin (nominative second-person singular)
feministlerin (nominative second-person singular)
feministi (nominative singular third-person)
feministleri (nominative singular third-person)
feministimiz (first-person nominative plural)
feministlerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
feministiniz (nominative plural second-person)
feministleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
feministleri (nominative plural third-person)
feministimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
feministlerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
feministini (accusative definite second-person singular)
feministlerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
feministini (accusative definite singular third-person)
feministlerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
feministimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
feministlerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
feministinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
feministlerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
feministlerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
feministime (dative first-person singular)
feministlerime (dative first-person singular)
feministine (dative second-person singular)
feministlerine (dative second-person singular)
feministine (dative singular third-person)
feministlerine (dative singular third-person)
feministimize (dative first-person plural)
feministlerimize (dative first-person plural)
feministinize (dative plural second-person)
feministlerinize (dative plural second-person)
feministlerine (dative plural third-person)
feministimde (first-person locative singular)
feministlerimde (first-person locative singular)
feministinde (locative second-person singular)
feministlerinde (locative second-person singular)
feministinde (locative singular third-person)
feministlerinde (locative singular third-person)
feministimizde (first-person locative plural)
feministlerimizde (first-person locative plural)
feministinizde (locative plural second-person)
feministlerinizde (locative plural second-person)
feministlerinde (locative plural third-person)
feministimden (ablative first-person singular)
feministlerimden (ablative first-person singular)
feministinden (ablative second-person singular)
feministlerinden (ablative second-person singular)
feministinden (ablative singular third-person)
feministlerinden (ablative singular third-person)
feministimizden (ablative first-person plural)
feministlerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
feministinizden (ablative plural second-person)
feministlerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
feministlerinden (ablative plural third-person)
feministimin (first-person genitive singular)
feministlerimin (first-person genitive singular)
feministinin (genitive second-person singular)
feministlerinin (genitive second-person singular)
feministinin (genitive singular third-person)
feministlerinin (genitive singular third-person)
feministimizin (first-person genitive plural)
feministlerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
feministinizin (genitive plural second-person)
feministlerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
feministlerinin (genitive plural third-person)
feministim (first-person singular)
feministlerim (first-person singular)
feministsin (second-person singular)
feministlersin (second-person singular)
feminist (singular third-person)
feministtir (singular third-person)
feministler (singular third-person)
feministlerdir (singular third-person)
feministiz (first-person plural)
feministleriz (first-person plural)
feministsiniz (plural second-person)
feministlersiniz (plural second-person)
feministler (plural third-person)
feministlerdir (plural third-person)


feminazi

en-adj

feminazi (comparative more feminazi, superlative most feminazi)

more feminazi (comparative)
most feminazi (superlative)

Reason (magazine)
Rush Limbaugh
Thomas Hazlett
feminazi

Blend of feminist + Nazi, popularized in 1992 by conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who credited his friend Thomas Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, with coining the term (1987).

(derogatory, potentially offensive) Relating to a radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views, or a female chauvinist.

ֆեմինացիստ

relating to a radical or militant feminist


feminazi

For quotations using this term, see Citations:feminazi.

(derogatory, potentially offensive) A radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or who seeks female superiority over men.

女權塔利班 /女权塔利班 (neoi⁵ kyun⁴ taap³ lei⁶ baan¹, literally “feminist Taliban”)


feminazi

gl-noun

feminazi m or f by sense (plural feminazis)

Calque of English feminazi: blend of feminista + nazi.


NOW

National Organization for Women
w:National Organization for Women

(US) Acronym of National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization.


New Man

When [Norman] Schwartzkopf shed a public tear for the Americans killed, wounded and captured in the 1990–91 Gulf War, he was roundly praised as a New Man.

1999, Anthony McMahon, Taking Care of Men: Sexual Politics in the Public Mind, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 104:

A man who, rejecting sexist attitudes and traditional conceptions of masculinity, aims to be caring and sensitive, and to take a substantial role in the domestic routine.


misogynistic

en-adj

misogynistic (comparative more misogynistic, superlative most misogynistic)

more misogynistic (comparative)
most misogynistic (superlative)

This is arguably linked to two things: declining tolerance for straight men’s behavior may have, on the one hand, caused this; the effect is misogynistic backlash in the form of rising incelhood.

2022 November 19, Amlan Sarkar, “A Straight Masculinity Crisis Is Underway — And It’s a Good Thing”, in The Swaddle:

Of, relating to, or exhibiting misogyny.


misogynous

misogynous (comparative more misogynous, superlative most misogynous)

more misogynous (comparative)
most misogynous (superlative)

Of, relating to, or exhibiting misogyny; misogynistic.


banríon

head

banríon f (genitive singular banríona, nominative plural banríonacha)

banríona (genitive singular)
banríonacha (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
banríon (indefinite singular)
banríonacha (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a bhanríon (indefinite singular)
a bhanríonacha (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
banríona (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an bhanríon (definite singular)
na banríonacha (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na banríona (definite singular)
na mbanríonacha (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an mbanríon (definite singular)
don bhanríon (definite singular)
leis na banríonacha (definite plural)
banríon
bhanríon
mbanríon

/ˈbˠanˠɾˠiːnˠ/

/ˈbʲænɾˠiən/

/ˈbˠaːnˠˌɾˠiːnˠ/

[ˈbˠaːnˠˌrˠiːnˠ]

PIE word
 *gʷḗn
Inherited from Old Irish banríga(i)n. By surface analysis, ban- + ríon.

Thug an bhanríoghan an t‑ógánach isteach ’san phálás, ⁊ bhí righeacht ⁊ saidhbhreas an tsean-ríogh alig aige; ⁊ bhí sé féin ⁊ a mháthair go sona, seunmhar ó shin amach: ⁊ mar robh siad-san go mbeidh sinne.

1894 March 24, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:

The queen brought the youth into her own palace, and he had the kingdom and riches of the old king, and himself and his mother were happy and prosperous from that forth, and like them may we too be.


women's lib

women's liberation
women's liberation#English

(informal) Clipping of women's liberation.: the feminist movement for equal rights; women's liberation


limmer

Uncertain; perhaps from limb, or French limier; see leamer.

Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands.

1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:


Clare

The anglicized spelling of Irish Clár, from Old Irish clár (“plank, board”), from Proto-Celtic *klāros, *klārom (“table”).

A district municipality in Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada, named after County Clare.

A number of places in the United States, likely to be named after County Clare:

A city mostly in Clare County, Michigan; after its county and County Clare.


sisterhood

en-noun

sisterhood (countable and uncountable, plural sisterhoods)

From Middle English susterhede; equivalent to sister + -hood (with a modification in the suffix).

What does the rallying cry of sisterhood and the concept of feminism mean when last year, the majority of white, female voters chose whiteness as a political identity over womanhood?

2017 September 23, Kaitlyn Greenidge, “‘Sisterhood’ Felt Meaningless. So My Sisters and I Got in the Car.”, in The New York Times:

(feminism) The idea of universal experience amongst women, regardless of other traits or factors. (Considered obsolete in third-wave feminism.)

sororidade

feminism: the idea of universal experience amongst women


gruag

head

gruag f (genitive singular gruaige, plural gruagan)

gruaige (genitive singular)
gruagan (plural)
gruag
ghruag

Dath na gruaige

(Uist) the hair of the head, especially of a female


gendered knowledge

(feminism) According to feminist studies and gender studies, mainstream knowledge that is produced by men and privileges the masculine over the feminine.


autogynephilia

/ˌɔːtəʊˌɡaɪnəˈfɪli.ə/

/ˌɔtoʊˌɡaɪnəˈfɪli.ə/

/ˌɑtoʊˌɡaɪnəˈfɪli.ə/

Coordinate term: autoandrophilia

Charles Moser (2010) “Blanchard’s Autogynephilia Theory: A Critique”, in Journal of Homosexuality, volume 57, number 6, →DOI, pages 790–809: “If autogynephilia were a paraphilia, we would expect that MTFs would want estrogens to feminize themselves, but decline anti-androgens or report that they disliked the effect. This is contrary to the observation that MTFs request and like the effects of anti-androgens.”

gender identity disorder
gender identity disorder

transvestic fetishism
transvestic fetishism

In Ray Blanchard's transsexualism typology, the proposed paraphilic tendency of someone who is anatomically male to be sexually aroused by the thought of being a female, sometimes framed as a form of gender identity disorder or transvestic fetishism.


Clarissa

Clarissa
Clarissa (novel)
Samuel Richardson

Borrowed from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Popularized in English by Samuel Richardson's 1748 novel Clarissa. Doublet of Clarisse.

My wife's maiden name—Unmarried name, I should rather say […] was Harlowe—Clarissa Harlowe—you heard me call her my Clarissa—
I did—but I thought it to be a feigned or a love-name, said Miss Rawlins. […]
No—it was her real name, I said.

A female given name from Latin or Italian.


Clarissa

Following Francis' example, Clare founded an order of religious women known as the Poor Ladies of Assisi (like Francis' Poor Men), and later as the Clarissas or Poor Clares in her honor.

1991, Thomas Head, “Clare of Assisi”, in An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers:

In the protomonastero of Santa Chiara in Assisi, erected from the outset for the Clarissas, however, equally frequent changes and modifications in the location of the nuns' choir suggest that there were still uncertainties as to the best place for it.

1992, Caroline A. Bruzelius, “Hearing Is Believing: Clarissan Architecture, ca. 1213–1340”, in Gesta, volume 31, number 2, page 85:

The rule of Urban IV also clarified the nomenclature of the Clarissas, with the pope designating the group as the Order of St. Claire rather than Poor Ladies, or Poor Recluses, of San Damiano.

1995, Caroline A. Bruzelius, “Queen Sancia of Mallorca and the Convent Church of Sta. Chiara in Naples”, in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, volume 40, page 75:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.


beldame

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From late (1400–1450) Middle English bel (“good”), from Old French bel (“beautiful”) + Latin bellus + dam (“mother”), Middle English dame.

Justice is an old hobbling beldame, and I can't get her to keep pace with Generosity, for the soul of me.

1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.i:

[…] have a curiosity to hear my fortune told: therefore, Sam, order the beldame forward.

1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:

The tablets upon which the events of the day were recorded refer to enchantresses, and we can conclude that they were by no means restricted to ancient beldames.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 25:

Suddenly the beldam shrieks as if she's been stuck with a dagger, long rasping insuck of breath: ‘Eeeeeeeee!’

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 6:

(now archaic) An old woman, particularly an ugly one.


postfeminism

en-noun

postfeminism (usually uncountable, plural postfeminisms)

Any of a wide range of theories that respond to feminism, arguing that it is no longer relevant or that it needs to be extended to fit the changing expectations and experiences of women.

postfeminisme

range of viewpoints that position themselves as reactions to feminism


antifeminist

en-adj

antifeminist (comparative more antifeminist, superlative most antifeminist)

more antifeminist (comparative)
most antifeminist (superlative)

He evolved to connect the antifeminist ridicule of the New Woman to the growing backlash against male homosexuals, the Somdomites and inverts.

2013, Doug Kirshen, Six Weeks—The New Man and the London Theatre Season of 1895: Henry James, Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde (thesis at Brandeis University)


antifeminist

This means, then, that many, if not most, male feminists and male womanists exist, literally, in a "no-man's land," where they receive the cold shoulder from feminists and womanists, and are shamelessly shunned by male antifeminists and antiwomanists and the supersexist men who rule the male supremacist world.

2010, Reiland Rabaka, Forms of Fanonism:

A person who is antagonistic to feminism.


antifeminism

en-noun

antifeminism (countable and uncountable, plural antifeminisms)

Instead, they rallied around issues like free speech and antifeminism, portraying themselves as truth-telling rebels doing battle against humorless “social justice warriors.”

2019 August 6, Kevin Roose, “The Making of a YouTube Radical”, in The New York Times:


feminismo

eo-head

feminismo (uncountable, accusative feminismon)

From English feminism, French feminisme, German Feminismus, etc.. Sometimes reinterpreted as femino (“rare word for woman”) + -ismo (“doctrine, theory, or practice”).

affix

(feminism) feminism (the social theory or political movement)


feminismo

From femina (“female, feminine”) + -ismo (“suffix denoting a system, doctrine or cult”).


feminismo

From Latin fēminīnus (“feminine”) + -ismo, from fēmina (“woman”). Calque of French féminisme.


ovular

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From ovule + -ar. In the feminist sense, chosen as an opposite to seminar because of that term's etymological link with semen, the male sexual fluid.

Trebilco considers 'seminar' offensively 'masculinist', so she has replaced it with ovular, which she regards as its feminist equivalent.

1994, Christina Hoff Sommers, Who Stole Feminism?:

(feminism, rare) A seminar for feminists.


étudiant·es

étudiant·e·s

(neologism, often proscribed) Used in certain forms of gender-neutral writing either before or around the feminine suffix, to avoid both the use of the masculine as the default form and the verbosity of writing out both the masculine and feminine forms.


herstory

en-noun

herstory (countable and uncountable, plural herstories)

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Wordplay: blend of her + history, derived as though the first syllable in history were his, the male pronoun.

(feminism) Any historical writing by or about women.


shero

Packing estrogen and, not infrequently, a pen and a sword, sheroes come in every imaginable shape, size, and color, and manifest their sheroism in infinite ways.

1998, Varla Ventura, Sheroes: Bold, Brash, and Absolutely Unabashed Superwomen from Susan B. Anthony to Xena, Conari Press, →ISBN, →OL:

Every human grouping, whether it's just two people, a family, people in the neighborhood, people in the city, in a nation, a tribe, a species; people live in direct relation to the heroes and the sheroes they have.

2006 November 30, Dave Chappelle & Maya Angelou (Iconoclasts), season 2, episode 6, Maya Angelou (actor), via Sundance:

He talks about how we must remember the unsung heroes and sheroes of the Talahassee boycott, of the movement in general, and finally, he wonders how C. K. Steele would be accepted here.

2010 April 1, Ana Maria Spagna, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN:

“They are nobodies. They could be silenced tomorrow. They are sheroes, to the world.”

2012 August 17, Melena Ryzik, quoting Kate Conroy, “In New York, a Show of Solidarity for Russian Punk Band”, in New York Times:


menyw

Variant of benyw back-formed from the soft mutation fenyw.


menyw

cy-adj

menyw (feminine singular menyw, plural menyw, not comparable)

menyw (feminine singular)
menyw (plural)
menyw
fenyw (soft)


Stepford

en-proper noun

Stepford (countable and uncountable, plural Stepfords)

Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway#English

A locality in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX8681).


gender-blind

en-adj

gender-blind (comparative more gender-blind, superlative most gender-blind)

more gender-blind (comparative)
most gender-blind (superlative)

From gender + blind, by analogy with color blind (“holding no prejudice based on skin color; not paying attention to skin color”).

I note, however, no universal gender-blind pronoun is recommended. If we all use different third pronouns, they’ll become fourth, fifth, 200th pronouns, and clarity will be lost.

2015 January 30, Gary Nunn, “Is it time we agreed on a gender-neutral singular pronoun?”, in The Guardian:

And Dachs’s decision to have women play some of the male roles, most prominently Kira, is very effective. / Gender-blind casting is, of course, not uncommon in Japanese theater, and Dachs herself is a former member of that country’s all-female Takarazuka Revue company […].

2022 October 24, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “‘Chushingura — 47 Ronin’ Review: A Sprawling Tale of Loyalty”, in The New York Times:

Having the quality of ignoring gender, such as organizations that accept and/or house people together without discriminating on the basis of gender.


femminista

it-adj

femminista (masculine plural femministi, feminine plural femministe)

femministi (masculine plural)
femministe (feminine plural)


femminista

it-noun

femminista m or f by sense (masculine plural femministi, feminine plural femministe)


phallocentrism

en-noun

phallocentrism (usually uncountable, plural phallocentrisms)


phallogocentrism

phallogocentrism (usually uncountable, plural phallogocentrisms)

/fəˌlɒɡəˈsɛntɹɪzm̩/

From French phallogocentrisme (coined by Derrida), corresponding to phallo- + logocentrism.

The task of this enquiry is to center on – and decenter – such defining institutions: phallogocentrism and compulsory heterosexuality.

1990, Judith Butler, 1990 Preface to Gender Trouble

(poststructuralist theory) The privileging of masculinity in the use of speech, writing or modes of thought; phallocentrism expressed through language.


phallogocentric

en-adj

phallogocentric (comparative more phallogocentric, superlative most phallogocentric)

more phallogocentric (comparative)
most phallogocentric (superlative)

Blend of phallocentric + logocentric. By surface analysis, phallus + logo- + centric.

surf

Philosophers of language may wonder whether Latin was a phallogocentric language because of its use of gender to refer to non-gendered things such as water.

We men, at least in our standard phallogocentric mode of sexuality, even when we are doing it with the real women, we are effectively doing it with our fantasy.

2006, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, Slavoj Žižek (actor):


boireann-dhligheachas

head

boireann-dhligheachas m (genitive boireann-dhligheachais)


βασίλισσα

βασίλισσα • (vasílissa) f (plural βασίλισσες, masculine βασιλιάς)

vasílissa (romanization)
βασίλισσες (plural)
βασιλιάς (masculine)
βασίλισσα (nominative singular)
βασίλισσες (nominative plural)
βασίλισσας (genitive singular)
βασιλισσών (genitive plural)
βασίλισσα (accusative singular)
βασίλισσες (accusative plural)
βασίλισσα (singular vocative)
βασίλισσες (plural vocative)

βα‧σί‧λισ‧σα

From Ancient Greek βασίλισσα (basílissa).

Η Ελισάβετ Β’ ήταν η βασίλισσα του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου.

Elizabeth II was the queen of the United Kingdom.

I Elisávet V’ ítan i vasílissa tou Inoménou Vasileíou.

η βασίλισσα των μελισσών

queen (reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp)

Η κόρη του είναι βασίλισσα της ομορφιάς.

I kóri tou eínai vasílissa tis omorfiás.

(figuratively) queen (powerful female figure)


genro

eo-head

genro (accusative singular genron, plural genroj, accusative plural genrojn)

genron (accusative singular)
genroj (plural)
genrojn (accusative plural)

Ultimately from Latin genus, possibly through French genre. The feminist and LGBT sense is a semantic loan from English gender. Doublet of ĝenro.

Kiam ies sekso kaj genro estas kongruaj, temas pri cisgenreco, dum kiam ili estas malsamaj, ni parolas pri transgenreco.

2014 October, Max Elbo, Beletra Almanako, volume 21, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 83:

When someone's sex and gender are compatible, we talk about cisgenderness, and when they are different, we talk about transgenderness.

Cetere, genro ne estas duuma.

2017, Euleax E. G. de Lima Pereira, “Genro kaj cisgenra normigo [Gender and cisgender normalization]”, in Kontakto [Contact], number 2, Universala Esperanto-Asocio, →ISSN, page 9:

Kiam estas permesite havi plian rilaton, iu ne timas alproksimiĝi al homo de la alia genro.

2018, Alice Andrès, “Pluramemo - Novaj difinoj en amo-rilatoj [Polyamory - New definitions in love relationships]”, in Kontakto [Contact], number 1, Universala Esperanto-Asocio, →ISSN, page 10:

When it is allowed to have an additional relationship, someone is not afraid to approach a human of the other gender.

(feminism, LGBTQ, neologism, proscribed) gender


women's libber

Shortened form of women's liberation + -er

(derogatory) A member or supporters of the women's liberation movement; a feminist


puerpera

en-noun

puerpera (plural puerperas or puerperae)

Borrowed from Latin puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”), substantive of puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) + pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) + -us (adjectival suffix).

af

An often proved Remedy to bring away what is, or should not be left in the Womb of a Puerpera, though it were Part of a dead Child.

1731, Robert Boyle, Medicinal experiments, volume 3, page 6:

"I must acknowledge, if Kolletschka's disease and the disease from which I saw so many puerperae die, are identical, then in the puerperae it must be produced by the self-same engendering cause, which produced it in Kolletschka."

1860, Henry E. Brady, David Collier, quoting Ignaz Semmelweis, Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 224:

Among the ancient Iranians, the puerpera, like the menstruating woman, was regarded as "unclean".

1885, Hermann Heinrich Ploss, Max Bartels, Paul Bartels, translated by Eric John Dingwall, Woman: an historical, gynæcological and anthropological compendium, page 150:

With the exception of the very nearest, — for instance, the husband and the mother of the puerpera, — visitors should be kept away until she has been out of bed for a few days, and even then admitted only in small numbers and one at a time.

1907, Henry Jacques Garrigues, A Text-book of the science and art of obstetrics, page 243:

(rare) A woman who has recently given birth.


feminismi

feminismi (nominative singular)
feminismit (nominative plural)
feminismi (accusative nominative singular)
feminismit (accusative nominative plural)
feminismin (accusative genitive singular)
feminismit (accusative genitive plural)
feminismin (genitive singular)
feminismien (genitive plural)
feminismiä (partitive singular)
feminismejä (partitive plural)
feminismissä (inessive singular)
feminismeissä (inessive plural)
feminismistä (elative singular)
feminismeistä (elative plural)
feminismiin (illative singular)
feminismeihin (illative plural)
feminismillä (adessive singular)
feminismeillä (adessive plural)
feminismiltä (ablative singular)
feminismeiltä (ablative plural)
feminismille (allative singular)
feminismeille (allative plural)
feminisminä (essive singular)
feminismeinä (essive plural)
feminismiksi (singular translative)
feminismeiksi (plural translative)
feminismittä (abessive singular)
feminismeittä (abessive plural)
feminismein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
feminismini (nominative singular)
feminismini (nominative plural)
feminismini (accusative nominative singular)
feminismini (accusative nominative plural)
feminismini (accusative genitive singular)
feminismini (accusative genitive plural)
feminismini (genitive singular)
feminismieni (genitive plural)
feminismiäni (partitive singular)
feminismejäni (partitive plural)
feminismissäni (inessive singular)
feminismeissäni (inessive plural)
feminismistäni (elative singular)
feminismeistäni (elative plural)
feminismiini (illative singular)
feminismeihini (illative plural)
feminismilläni (adessive singular)
feminismeilläni (adessive plural)
feminismiltäni (ablative singular)
feminismeiltäni (ablative plural)
feminismilleni (allative singular)
feminismeilleni (allative plural)
feminisminäni (essive singular)
feminismeinäni (essive plural)
feminismikseni (singular translative)
feminismeikseni (plural translative)
feminismittäni (abessive singular)
feminismeittäni (abessive plural)
feminismeineni (comitative plural)
feminismisi (nominative singular)
feminismisi (nominative plural)
feminismisi (accusative nominative singular)
feminismisi (accusative nominative plural)
feminismisi (accusative genitive singular)
feminismisi (accusative genitive plural)
feminismisi (genitive singular)
feminismiesi (genitive plural)
feminismiäsi (partitive singular)
feminismejäsi (partitive plural)
feminismissäsi (inessive singular)
feminismeissäsi (inessive plural)
feminismistäsi (elative singular)
feminismeistäsi (elative plural)
feminismiisi (illative singular)
feminismeihisi (illative plural)
feminismilläsi (adessive singular)
feminismeilläsi (adessive plural)
feminismiltäsi (ablative singular)
feminismeiltäsi (ablative plural)
feminismillesi (allative singular)
feminismeillesi (allative plural)
feminisminäsi (essive singular)
feminismeinäsi (essive plural)
feminismiksesi (singular translative)
feminismeiksesi (plural translative)
feminismittäsi (abessive singular)
feminismeittäsi (abessive plural)
feminismeinesi (comitative plural)
feminismimme (nominative singular)
feminismimme (nominative plural)
feminismimme (accusative nominative singular)
feminismimme (accusative nominative plural)
feminismimme (accusative genitive singular)
feminismimme (accusative genitive plural)
feminismimme (genitive singular)
feminismiemme (genitive plural)
feminismiämme (partitive singular)
feminismejämme (partitive plural)
feminismissämme (inessive singular)
feminismeissämme (inessive plural)
feminismistämme (elative singular)
feminismeistämme (elative plural)
feminismiimme (illative singular)
feminismeihimme (illative plural)
feminismillämme (adessive singular)
feminismeillämme (adessive plural)
feminismiltämme (ablative singular)
feminismeiltämme (ablative plural)
feminismillemme (allative singular)
feminismeillemme (allative plural)
feminisminämme (essive singular)
feminismeinämme (essive plural)
feminismiksemme (singular translative)
feminismeiksemme (plural translative)
feminismittämme (abessive singular)
feminismeittämme (abessive plural)
feminismeinemme (comitative plural)
feminisminne (nominative singular)
feminisminne (nominative plural)
feminisminne (accusative nominative singular)
feminisminne (accusative nominative plural)
feminisminne (accusative genitive singular)
feminisminne (accusative genitive plural)
feminisminne (genitive singular)
feminismienne (genitive plural)
feminismiänne (partitive singular)
feminismejänne (partitive plural)
feminismissänne (inessive singular)
feminismeissänne (inessive plural)
feminismistänne (elative singular)
feminismeistänne (elative plural)
feminismiinne (illative singular)
feminismeihinne (illative plural)
feminismillänne (adessive singular)
feminismeillänne (adessive plural)
feminismiltänne (ablative singular)
feminismeiltänne (ablative plural)
feminismillenne (allative singular)
feminismeillenne (allative plural)
feminisminänne (essive singular)
feminismeinänne (essive plural)
feminismiksenne (singular translative)
feminismeiksenne (plural translative)
feminismittänne (abessive singular)
feminismeittänne (abessive plural)
feminismeinenne (comitative plural)
feminisminsä (nominative singular)
feminisminsä (nominative plural)
feminisminsä (accusative nominative singular)
feminisminsä (accusative nominative plural)
feminisminsä (accusative genitive singular)
feminisminsä (accusative genitive plural)
feminisminsä (genitive singular)
feminismiensä (genitive plural)
feminismiään (partitive singular)
feminismiänsä (partitive singular)
feminismejään (partitive plural)
feminismejänsä (partitive plural)
feminismissään (inessive singular)
feminismissänsä (inessive singular)
feminismeissään (inessive plural)
feminismeissänsä (inessive plural)
feminismistään (elative singular)
feminismistänsä (elative singular)
feminismeistään (elative plural)
feminismeistänsä (elative plural)
feminismiinsä (illative singular)
feminismeihinsä (illative plural)
feminismillään (adessive singular)
feminismillänsä (adessive singular)
feminismeillään (adessive plural)
feminismeillänsä (adessive plural)
feminismiltään (ablative singular)
feminismiltänsä (ablative singular)
feminismeiltään (ablative plural)
feminismeiltänsä (ablative plural)
feminismilleen (allative singular)
feminismillensä (allative singular)
feminismeilleen (allative plural)
feminismeillensä (allative plural)
feminisminään (essive singular)
feminisminänsä (essive singular)
feminismeinään (essive plural)
feminismeinänsä (essive plural)
feminismikseen (singular translative)
feminismiksensä (singular translative)
feminismeikseen (plural translative)
feminismeiksensä (plural translative)
feminismittään (abessive singular)
feminismittänsä (abessive singular)
feminismeittään (abessive plural)
feminismeittänsä (abessive plural)
feminismeineen (comitative plural)
feminismeinensä (comitative plural)


Feminismus

de-noun

Feminismus m (strong, genitive Feminismus, plural Feminismen)

Feminismus (genitive)
Feminismen (plural)
Feminismus (nominative singular)
Feminismen (definite nominative plural)
Feminismus (genitive singular)
Feminismen (definite genitive plural)
Feminismus (dative singular)
Feminismen (dative definite plural)
Feminismus (accusative singular)
Feminismen (accusative definite plural)


feminizam

sh-noun

feminìzam m (Cyrillic spelling феминѝзам)

feminìzam (canonical masculine)
феминѝзам (Cyrillic)
feminizam (nominative singular)
feminizma (genitive singular)
feminizmu (dative singular)
feminizam (accusative singular)
feminizme (singular vocative)
feminizmu (locative singular)
feminizmom (instrumental singular)


フェミニズム

[ɸe̞mʲiɲ̟izɨmɯ̟]


sarong party girl

en-noun

sarong party girl (plural sarong party girls)

(Singapore, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Asian girl who dates a non-Asian, especially a white expatriate.


feminizm

feminizm (nominative singular)
feminizmu (genitive singular)
feminizmowi (dative singular)
feminizm (accusative singular)
feminizmem (instrumental singular)
feminizmie (locative singular)
feminizmie (singular vocative)


feminizm

head

feminizm (definite accusative feminizmi, plural feminizmler)

feminizmi (accusative definite)
feminizmler (plural)
feminizm (nominative singular)
feminizmler (nominative plural)
feminizmi (accusative definite singular)
feminizmleri (accusative definite plural)
feminizme (dative singular)
feminizmlere (dative plural)
feminizmde (locative singular)
feminizmlerde (locative plural)
feminizmden (ablative singular)
feminizmlerden (ablative plural)
feminizmin (genitive singular)
feminizmlerin (genitive plural)
feminizmim (first-person nominative singular)
feminizmlerim (first-person nominative singular)
feminizmin (nominative second-person singular)
feminizmlerin (nominative second-person singular)
feminizmi (nominative singular third-person)
feminizmleri (nominative singular third-person)
feminizmimiz (first-person nominative plural)
feminizmlerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
feminizminiz (nominative plural second-person)
feminizmleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
feminizmleri (nominative plural third-person)
feminizmimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
feminizmlerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
feminizmini (accusative definite second-person singular)
feminizmlerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
feminizmini (accusative definite singular third-person)
feminizmlerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
feminizmimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
feminizmlerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
feminizminizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
feminizmlerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
feminizmlerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
feminizmime (dative first-person singular)
feminizmlerime (dative first-person singular)
feminizmine (dative second-person singular)
feminizmlerine (dative second-person singular)
feminizmine (dative singular third-person)
feminizmlerine (dative singular third-person)
feminizmimize (dative first-person plural)
feminizmlerimize (dative first-person plural)
feminizminize (dative plural second-person)
feminizmlerinize (dative plural second-person)
feminizmlerine (dative plural third-person)
feminizmimde (first-person locative singular)
feminizmlerimde (first-person locative singular)
feminizminde (locative second-person singular)
feminizmlerinde (locative second-person singular)
feminizminde (locative singular third-person)
feminizmlerinde (locative singular third-person)
feminizmimizde (first-person locative plural)
feminizmlerimizde (first-person locative plural)
feminizminizde (locative plural second-person)
feminizmlerinizde (locative plural second-person)
feminizmlerinde (locative plural third-person)
feminizmimden (ablative first-person singular)
feminizmlerimden (ablative first-person singular)
feminizminden (ablative second-person singular)
feminizmlerinden (ablative second-person singular)
feminizminden (ablative singular third-person)
feminizmlerinden (ablative singular third-person)
feminizmimizden (ablative first-person plural)
feminizmlerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
feminizminizden (ablative plural second-person)
feminizmlerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
feminizmlerinden (ablative plural third-person)
feminizmimin (first-person genitive singular)
feminizmlerimin (first-person genitive singular)
feminizminin (genitive second-person singular)
feminizmlerinin (genitive second-person singular)
feminizminin (genitive singular third-person)
feminizmlerinin (genitive singular third-person)
feminizmimizin (first-person genitive plural)
feminizmlerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
feminizminizin (genitive plural second-person)
feminizmlerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
feminizmlerinin (genitive plural third-person)


Clarisse

Borrowed from French Clarisse, from Italian Clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa (“Poor Clare”); see there for more. Doublet of Clarissa and Clarice.

Clara... withdrew herself... to the Church of St. Damian, and there gave beginning to the poor Maids, called from her name Clarisses...

1693, Gabriel d'Emillianne, translated by Antonio Gavin, A Short History of Monastical Orders, page 253:

(Catholicism) Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare, sometimes particularly such a nun who followed the original rules of Saint Clare of Assisi.


omg

(chiefly Internet, slang) Alternative form of OMG:


feministic

en-adj

feministic (comparative more feministic, superlative most feministic)

more feministic (comparative)
most feministic (superlative)

Someone might be feministic without “officially” being a feminist.

Of or relating to or in accordance with feminism.


domme

Alteration of dom with the pseudo-French feminine inflection.

No amount of fetish wear or powerful looking garments can make a domme out of a woman who hasn't worked on her power and grace within.

2005, Midori, Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink, Los Angeles: Daedalus Publishing, published 2013, →ISBN, page 95:

Something dommes know is that fear can be controlled — and even used to your advantage.

2006, Emily Dubberley, Whip Your Life into Shape, Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 94:

Leather and rubber fetish has always been popular but there’s a massive need for dommes who specialise in foot and shoe worship; there are just not enough of us to go around.

2011, Rebecca, “Rebecca”, in Julian Davies, Hookers: Candid Confessions of Real Call Girls, Milo Books, page 179:

A female dominant in a BDSM relationship.


Láadan

From Láadan Láadan, created by Suzette Haden Elgin in 1982.

constructed language
constructed language

A constructed language designed as an experiment in feminist linguistics.


frac

From Proto-Celtic *wrakkā, probably related to *grúac (“hair”); for similar sense development, see Scottish Gaelic gruagach (“maiden, woman”), which evolved from gruag, as unmarried women did not cover their hair.
Compare Welsh gwraig and Breton gwreg.


cyberfeminist

[…] discussion of prostitution on the Internet (which also includes consideration of pornography from a cyberfeminist perspective) […]

2001, David Wall, Crime and the Internet:

Some cyberfeminist activists, in particular radical feminists on Tumblr, have been labeled “Social Justice Warriors” (SJWs) and are often scrutinized by mainstream feminist movements and popular culture.

2015, Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, Feminist Theory and Pop Culture, page 125:


cyberfeminist

If I'd rather be a cyberfeminist than a goddess, I'd damned well better know why, and be willing to say so.

2001, Hilary Robinson, Feminism-art-theory: An Anthology, 1968-2000:


cyberfeminism

en-noun

cyberfeminism (countable and uncountable, plural cyberfeminisms)

Because of its similarity to what is often referred to as "liberal feminism" in the non-virtual world, I identify this perspective as liberal cyberfeminism.

1996, Susan C Herring, Computer-mediated Communication:

At the opening to On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations, Plant says that cyber-feminism—and/or the complex systems and virtual worlds upon which it is based—has the capacity to undermine the ‘world view and material reality of two thousand years of patriarchal control’.

1997, Caroline Bassett, quoting Sadie Plant, “With a Little Help from Our (New) Friends”, in Mute, volume 1, number 8, →ISSN:

Cyberfeminism is an attempt by feminists to own a part of the computer revolution, where the field of computer science has established a resistant, male center of power.

2008, Sue Vilhauer Rosser, Women, Science, and Myth:

A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.


misoginia

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía).


misoginia

Coordinate term: misandria


misoginia

Coordinate term: misandria


womynhood

Reclaiming my true womynhood, learning to truly know and love myself and other wimmin has taken time.

1980, Susan J Wolfe, Julia Penelope, The Coming Out Stories:

Indeed, the opera recovers the bound and raped bodies of Afro-Asian womynhood as evidence of the need for a transracial feminist dialectic...

In one brave and defiant performance, she redefined the patriarchal constructions of beauty, femininity, and womynhood for all who saw her.

2008, Laurie J Kendall, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival:


postfeminist

en-adj

postfeminist (comparative more postfeminist, superlative most postfeminist)

more postfeminist (comparative)
most postfeminist (superlative)

This has meant also a postfeminist, postqueer shift toward a different Foucault than the one we were obsessed with in the 1980s and nineties. If we still use him, it is usually for purposes other than sex: the rethinking of race, sovereignty, religion, and nation.

2013, Lynn Huffer, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory:


protofeminist

As Shamas depicts her, Earhart is basically a one-note, protofeminist heroine who pursues adventure "for the fun of it."

1988 April 1, Lawrence Bommer, “Amelia Lives!”, in Chicago Reader:

Preceding but anticipating or laying the groundwork for feminism


malestream

malestream (comparative more malestream, superlative most malestream)

more malestream (comparative)
most malestream (superlative)

(feminism) Mainstream and usual, from the point of view of the man, though actually biased towards men.


phallocratic

phallocratic (comparative more phallocratic, superlative most phallocratic)

more phallocratic (comparative)
most phallocratic (superlative)

Pertaining to government or dominance by males.


herstorical

herstorical (comparative more herstorical, superlative most herstorical)

more herstorical (comparative)
most herstorical (superlative)

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The essays discuss the ways in which the struggles against racism and sexism have come together or the times they have worked in isolation. They are well researched and reflect herstorical conditions of America's past, so often left out of history.

1982 December 4, Malkah Barrsey Feldman, “A Legacy of Oppression”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 9:

(rare, feminism) Pertaining to herstory.


herstorically

en-adv

herstorically (comparative more herstorically, superlative most herstorically)

more herstorically (comparative)
most herstorically (superlative)

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(rare, feminism) In a herstoric or herstorical way.


quaintrelle

Borrowed from Late Middle English queyntrelle (“person of fashion”), from Middle French cointerelle, from Middle French cointerel (“vain”) + -elle, -ele (suffix forming feminine diminutive nouns), possibly influenced by quaint. Cointerel is derived from cointe (“clever, intelligent; quaint”), from Latin cognitus (“known, recognized; acknowledged, noted”), the perfect passive participle of cōgnōscō (“to be acquainted (with), recognize; to learn; to know”), from con- (prefix meaning ‘with’) + (g)nōscō (“to know, recognize”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”) + *-sḱéti (suffix forming durative or iterative imperfective verbs from roots)).

der

It folweth nouht that thouh j be thus kembt and a litel make the queyntrelle that for swich cause j am fair

[c. 1430, Guillaume de Deguileville, chapter XLVII, in [anonymous], transl., edited by William Aldis Wright, The Pilgrimage of the Lyf of the Manhode. From the French (Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.1.7) (in Middle English), London: Printed for the Roxburghe Club; J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Sons, […], published 1869, →OCLC, 3rd part, folio 109, page 160:

It followeth not that though I be thus kempt [neat and tidy], and a little make the quaintrelle, that for such cause I am fair

On this evening, however, Warthrop became as punctilious as the fussiest quaintrelle. I, as his impromptu valet, bore the brunt of his anxiety. His waistcoat was wrinkled. His shoes were scuffed. His cravat was crooked.

2010, William James Henry [pseudonym; Rick Yancey], “‘Ich Habe Dich Auch Vermisst’”, in The Curse of the Wendigo (The Monstrumologist; 2), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 208:

From Rosie the Riveter to Coco Channel^([sic – meaning Coco Chanel]) (in pants!), from Amelia Earhart to the quaintrelle (the female dandy), change in women's dress has symbolized everything from the right and need to work outside the home to wearing pants as a fashion statement to excelling at a profession (even as an aviatrix) to once again claiming the right to cultivate life's pleasures.

2011, Glenda L. Swetman, Alison Trappey, “Principles of Gender-specific Medicine”, in Lawrence Charles Parish, Sarah Brenner, Marcia Ramos-e-Silva, Jennifer L. Parish, editors, Manual of Gender Dermatology, Sudbury, Mass., Mississauga, Ont.: Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, part I (Primer of Gender Dermatology), page 9:

Her sparkling, hazel eyes emitted a pearly glow … the windows to to an untarnished, unblemished soul. Her spirit was that of a quaintrelle. He was struck by her nuances, which did not seem so subtle after all.

2015, Hrishikesh Joshi, chapter 14, in Checkmate, Mumbai, Maharashtra: Frog Books, →ISBN:

She was the type of woman who deserved to live in a villa or a fancy hotel. The kind of woman you named a star after. A quaintrelle.

2016 February, Christine Reilly, “The Claudio who Promised”, in Sunday’s on the Phone to Monday: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 70:

His smile becomes the flowering flame, a bunch / Of exquisitely beautiful daisies / Among which dandies and quaintrelles flourish / With parrot and chameleon power in full bloom.

2018 August 31, Felix Bongjoh, Season of Flowers, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

[Jean] Painlevé presented Hyas and Stenorhynchus crabs as both masters of disguise—engaging in forms of camouflage or blending into their environment—and undersea dandies and quaintrelles.

2019, James Leo Cahill, “Metamorphoses: Crustaceans, the Coming of Sound, and Plasmatic Anthropomorphism”, in Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:

(archaic, rare) A woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes.


ecofeminism

en-noun

ecofeminism (countable and uncountable, plural ecofeminisms)

A sociopolitical movement combining feminism and environmentalism.

ekofeminismo

a sociopolitical movement combining feminism and environmentalism


ecofeminist

en-adj

ecofeminist (comparative more ecofeminist, superlative most ecofeminist)

more ecofeminist (comparative)
most ecofeminist (superlative)


cybergirl

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Cybergirls intersect with riot grrls as a mode of do-it-yourself girl expression […]

2002, Catherine Driscoll, Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory:

I leaned over her shoulder to see two cybergirls yanking out each other's hair. Katy was typing insults that appeared onscreen.

For a cinematic critique that considers the social impact of the cybergirl cultural phenomenon, see Andrew Niccols' cautionary tale […]

2006, Sidney Eve Matrix, Cyberpop: digital lifestyles and commodity culture:

Thomas's analysis of adolescent cybergirls' representation of self within the online world of "the palace," links talk, image, and identity […]

2007, Nadine Dolby, Fazal Rizvi, Youth moves: identities and education in global perspective:

Explanations for the gender imbalance are nearly as wide-ranging as cybergirls themselves.

2008 February 21, Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain”, in New York Times:

(dated) A girl who is active in cyberspace; a young female Internet user, especially one who publishes.


patriarchaat

→ Indonesian: patriarkat


patriarchaal

nl-adj

patriarchaal (comparative patriarchaler, superlative patriarchaalst)

patriarchaler (comparative)
patriarchaalst (superlative)
patriarchaal (adverbial positive predicative)
patriarchaler (adverbial comparative predicative)
het patriarchaalst (adverbial predicative superlative)
het patriarchaalste (adverbial predicative superlative)
patriarchale (feminine indefinite masculine positive singular)
patriarchalere (comparative feminine indefinite masculine singular)
patriarchaalste (feminine indefinite masculine singular superlative)
patriarchaal (indefinite neuter positive singular)
patriarchaler (comparative indefinite neuter singular)
patriarchaalste (indefinite neuter singular superlative)
patriarchale (indefinite plural positive)
patriarchalere (comparative indefinite plural)
patriarchaalste (indefinite plural superlative)
patriarchale (definite positive)
patriarchalere (comparative definite)
patriarchaalste (definite superlative)
patriarchaals (partitive positive)
patriarchalers (comparative partitive)

→ Indonesian: patriarkal

Probably ultimately from Latin patriarchālis. Equivalent to patriarch + -aal.

(feminism) patriarchial, pertaining to patriarchy


riot grrrl

en-noun

riot grrrl (countable and uncountable, plural riot grrrls or riot grrrlz)

riot grrrls (plural)
riot grrrlz (plural)

The Riot Grrl scene emerged in the early '90s, but had faded as a driving force in popular culture by the end of the decade. Looking back, most associate the Riot Grrl movement mainly with music, and although the music entered the popular culture, it's fair to say that much of the feminist message has been lost.

2004, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, The F-word, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 86:

(uncountable) An underground feminist punk movement and subculture that began in the early 1990s.

Riot grrrls also wanted self-definition through the written word and promoted a female-centered version of punk's DIY politics.

2001, Miriam Forman-Brunell, Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 564:

(countable) A (usually female) member of this subculture.


cum dumpster

The artist collected one hundred used white dress shirts and employed the formal conventions of male fashion to describe the double standards of society’s responses to sex for male versus female teenagers. […] On the back of each shirt, a centerline separated the categories “Male” and “Female.” The male side is articulated by only two adjectives: “stud” and “man.” On the female side is a spill of slanderous words and phrases used to characterize sexually active young women: “whore,” “cunt,” “slut,” “cum-dumpster.”

[1995, Patricia C. Phillips, “Peggy Diggs: Private Acts and Public Art”, in Nina Felshin, editor, But Is It Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism, Seattle: Bay Press, →ISBN, page 308:

“We fucked the shit out of this cum dumpster the other night,” he explains. Oh, I say. The photos show a woman, probably in her early twenties, wearing nothing except for white socks sagging around her ankles.

2001, Ken Baker, Man Made: A Memoir of My Body, New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, →ISBN:

She was unclean, she had let herself be used in the filthiest way, she was a ratty hotel washrag, a cum dumpster.

2004, Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 493:

I would be spending my evening with a nice cum dumpster named Bubbles. Dressed from head to toe in tight black leather, she only had to show me the ball gag in her hand.

2004 April 2, Lord Bumblebee, “Getting Tickled by Bubbles”, in The GW Hatchet, Washington, retrieved 2022-01-30:

I would explain it's because you aid and abet my skeezy ex, the Blowpipe! Devil Girl! The Cum Dumpster! Motorhole!

2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic, or, The Sexual Intellectual, Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, →ISBN, page 143:

(vulgar, derogatory, offensive, slang) A sexually promiscuous person, usually a woman or bottom, who has sexual relations with men who often ejaculate in their body cavities.


féminitude

womynhood (feminist definition of feminity)


old boys' club

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A boys' club (an organization that excludes women), especially one with an established history of male control.


feminoid

From feminist + -oid (suggesting a robotic, heartless quality as in android).

These establishments serve as headquarters for covens of feminoids primarily to pursue their own agendas and only secondarily to help these alleged victims.

2000, Laura K Egendorf, Male/female roles: opposing viewpoints:

That may have changed just a little bit, time will tell, since the professional feminoids have discovered the evils and dangers of pornography.

2006, George P Garrett, Empty bed blues:


counterfeminist

en-adj

counterfeminist (comparative more counterfeminist, superlative most counterfeminist)

more counterfeminist (comparative)
most counterfeminist (superlative)


neofeminist

A proponent of any of various new or postmodern forms of feminism.


misogynie

From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía) and μισογύνης (misogúnēs, “woman hater”), from μισέω (miséō, “I hate”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”).


androcentrismo

pt-noun

androcentrismo m (plural androcentrismos)

(feminism) androcentrism (ideological focus on males)


protofeminism

en-noun

protofeminism (usually uncountable, plural protofeminisms)

A philosophical tradition anticipating modern feminist concepts before their arrival.

protoféminisme

concept that anticipated the feminist movement


antifemminista

it-adj

antifemminista (masculine plural antifemministi, feminine plural antifemministe)

antifemministi (masculine plural)
antifemministe (feminine plural)


antifemminista

it-noun

antifemminista m or f by sense (masculine plural antifemministi, feminine plural antifemministe)


feministka

feministka (nominative singular)
feministky (nominative plural)
feministky (genitive singular)
feministek (genitive plural)
feministce (dative singular)
feministkám (dative plural)
feministku (accusative singular)
feministky (accusative plural)
feministko (singular vocative)
feministky (plural vocative)
feministce (locative singular)
feministkách (locative plural)
feministkou (instrumental singular)
feministkami (instrumental plural)


feminismus

feminismus (nominative singular)
feminismy (nominative plural)
feminismu (genitive singular)
feminismů (genitive plural)
feminismu (dative singular)
feminismům (dative plural)
feminismus (accusative singular)
feminismy (accusative plural)
feminisme (singular vocative)
feminismy (plural vocative)
feminismu (locative singular)
feminismech (locative plural)
feminismem (instrumental singular)
feminismy (instrumental plural)


glamourpuss

Perhaps that is what is lacking in the work of the younger glamourpusses around today. Zubin Mehta, for example, strikes me as being in something of a mess.

1968 May, New York Magazine, volume 1, number 5:

Even Joan Collins, that perennial glamourpuss, goes to Barbara for the Daly magic for special occasions.

1991, Sally Moore, The Definitive Diana: An Intimate Look at the Princess of Wales from A to Z:

The person who asked that question was holding some image of the actor as just a glamourpuss affair; she had no idea of what acting is about.

1995, Nicholas Ray, Susan Ray, I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies:


women's studies

The academic field which examines topics concerning women, feminism, and the relationship of gender and politics.


феминизам

mk-noun

феминистички

феминизам • (feminizam) m (relational adjective феминистички)

feminizam (romanization)
феминистички (adjective relational)
феминизам (indefinite singular)
феминизмот (definite singular unspecified)
феминизмов (definite proximal singular)
феминизмон (definite distal singular)
феминизму (singular vocative)


феминизам

феминѝзам (canonical masculine)
feminìzam (romanization)
феминизам (nominative singular)
феминизма (genitive singular)
феминизму (dative singular)
феминизам (accusative singular)
феминизме (singular vocative)
феминизму (locative singular)
феминизмом (instrumental singular)

фе‧ми‧ни‧зам


barefoot and pregnant

"The only way to keep a woman happy," he said, "is to keep her barefoot and pregnant."

Ms. Frank finds it a strange, if not a perverse coincidence that, after all these centuries of Jewish history, just when Jewish women are demanding greater and more meaningful participation in Jewish religious and communal life, certain segments of the Jewish community are loudly hitting the old "barefoot and pregnant motif."

1994, Steven Bayme, Gladys Rosen, The Jewish family and Jewish continuity:

I was to stay the ol' barefoot and pregnant wife. And I saw no need for that. I found myself in a rut. Get up, fix breakfast, send hubby off to work...

2007, Edward M Tauber, Jim Smoke, Finding the Right One After Divorce:

"He wanted me barefoot and pregnant," she said. But staying home was driving her crazy.

2007, Greg J Duncan, Aletha C Huston, Thomas S Weisner, Higher ground: New Hope for the working poor and their children:

(derogatory, of women) Kept at home to perform the traditional duties expected of women.


foresister

From fore- + sister. Compare forefather.

Only then will we be able to adequately tell what our foresisters have done in memory of her.

1984, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In memory of her: a feminist theological reconstruction of Christian origins:

Of course, women and men are always children of their time, and feminists today are children of their time, sitting on the shoulders of their foresisters even if they do not recognize it.

1999, Deborah F Sawyer, Diane M Collier, Is there a future for feminist theology?:

(feminism) A feminist of an earlier generation.


feminista

pl-noun

feminista m pers (female equivalent feministka)

feministka (feminine)
feminista (nominative singular)
feminiści (nominative plural)
feministy (derogatory nominative plural)
feministy (genitive singular)
feministów (genitive plural)
feminiście (dative singular)
feministom (dative plural)
feministę (accusative singular)
feministów (accusative plural)
feministą (instrumental singular)
feministami (instrumental plural)
feminiście (locative singular)
feministach (locative plural)
feministo (singular vocative)
feminiści (plural vocative)


women's liberation

Fourier was the most ardent and voluminous advocate of women's liberation and of sexual freedom among the early socialists.

1966, New Left Review, November–December, p 12

The freedom of women from sexism; equal rights for women.


gwragh

gwraghes (plural)
gwragh (unmutated)
wragh (soft)
kwragh
hwragh (mixed)
wragh (after-th mutation-mixed)

→ English: wrasse

From Proto-Celtic *wrakkā, possibly from a feminine derivative of Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós (“husband, man”); compare *wiros. Cognate with Breton gwrac'h, Welsh gwrach.


feminisme

head

feminisme c (singular definite feminismen, not used in plural form)

feminismen (definite singular)
feminisme (indefinite nominative singular)
feminismen (definite nominative singular)
feminismes (genitive indefinite singular)
feminismens (definite genitive singular)


feminisme

Borrowed from Latin femina (“woman”) + -isme.


pseudofeminist

en-adj

pseudofeminist (comparative more pseudofeminist, superlative most pseudofeminist)

more pseudofeminist (comparative)
most pseudofeminist (superlative)

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The ads deployed pseudofeminist rhetoric with implicit references to Title IX and sexual assault, casting trans students as patriarchal threats to women’s hard-won rights: “The end of girls’ sports? Her dreams of a scholarship shattered, your 14-year-old daughter just lost her position on an all-girl team to a male … and now she may have to shower with him. Are you willing to let that happen?”

2019, Mia Fischer, chapter 5, in Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →LCCN, page 176:

Seemingly feminist; feminist perhaps in form, but certainly not in essence.


pseudofeminism

en-noun

pseudofeminism (usually uncountable, plural pseudofeminisms)

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The period of these blockbuster franchises has also seen such popular pseudofeminisms as 'girl power' that claim empowerment while buying in to materialisms that are patriarchal.

2007, John Lennard, Octavia E Butler: Xenogenesis / Lilith's Brood, page 14:

A belief system that resembles, but is not in fact, feminism.


womanism

womanism (countable and uncountable, plural womanisms)

From woman + -ism. Coined by Alice Walker in 1983.

Although womanism raises the issue of gender, it simultaneously offers a distance from the “enemy,” in this case, Whites generally and White women in particular.

2001, Sheila Ruth, editor, Issues in Feminism: An Introduction to Women's Studies, McGraw-Hill:

In line with femalism, African womanism is committed to the quest for total freedom of the colonized African men and women.

2004, Chioma Carol Opara, Her Mother's Daughter: The African Writer as Woman, page 20:

Feminism is the form of women's organisation that is prioritised both in the media and academia, but many black women have turned to womanism in an attempt to counter the ways in which the combined oppressions of race and gender affect our lives. Womanism is not just feminism for women from minorities; it is based in our spirituality, honouring our foremothers and a desire to support both men and women.

2010 April 10, Renee Martin, “I'm not a feminist (and there is no but)”, in The Guardian:

An extension to feminism that incorporates respect for women of all races and classes.


femspeak

The aim of this jargon-sodden Femspeak is to set up a myth of women artists as a hated underclass, which they were not in 1975 and are not today; in such a scheme, vagina hatred is imputed to men as automatically as penis envy once was to women.

1980 December 15, Robert Hughes, “An Obsessive Feminist Pantheon”, in Time:

The Bergers assert that “the family is a problem”, and note that the concept of 'gender roles' is merely “femspeak” – a technique for arguing that the assignment of roles within the family is arbitrary and that it can/should be changed, so as to advance women's welfare (p 64).

2005, Ann Oakley, The Ann Oakley Reader: Gender, Women and Social Science, The Policy Press, →ISBN, page 44:

According to Warren Farrell, an Orwellian “lace curtain” of governing “femspeak” is virtually indistinguishable from the propaganda machinery of tyranny states.

2007, Robert Menzies, “Virtual Backlash: Representations of Men's 'Rights' and Feminist 'Wrongs' in Cyberspace”, in Susan B. Boyd, Dorothy E. Chunn, Hester Lessard, editors, Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 83:

(derogatory) The characteristic jargon of feminists and feminist discourse.


女權主義

ㄋㄩˇ ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄓㄨˇ ㄧˋ

нюйцюань чжуи

/ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵ ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹ i⁵¹/

/nɵy̯¹³ kʰyːn²¹ t͡syː³⁵ jiː²²/

/ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵ ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹ i⁵¹/

/nɵy̯¹³ kʰyːn²¹ t͡syː³⁵ jiː²²/


女權主義者

ㄋㄩˇ ㄑㄩㄢˊ ㄓㄨˇ ㄧˋ ㄓㄜˇ

нюйцюань чжуичжэ

/ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰy̯ɛn³⁵ ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹ i⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂɤ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/nɵy̯¹³ kʰyːn²¹ t͡syː³⁵ jiː²² t͡sɛː³⁵/

/nɵy̯¹³ kʰyːn²¹ t͡syː³⁵ jiː²² t͡sɛː³⁵/


феминизм

Borrowed from Russian фемини́зм (feminízm), from French féminisme, ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”).


феминизм

ru-noun+

фемини́зм • (feminízm) m inan (genitive фемини́зма, nominative plural фемини́змы, genitive plural фемини́змов)

фемини́зм (canonical)
feminízm (romanization)
фемини́зма (genitive)
фемини́змы (nominative plural)
фемини́змов (genitive plural)
фемини́зм (nominative singular)
фемини́змы (nominative plural)
фемини́зма (genitive singular)
фемини́змов (genitive plural)
фемини́зму (dative singular)
фемини́змам (dative plural)
фемини́зм (accusative singular)
фемини́змы (accusative plural)
фемини́змом (instrumental singular)
фемини́змами (instrumental plural)
фемини́зме (prepositional singular)
фемини́змах (plural prepositional)


chủ nghĩa nam nữ bình quyền

主義男女平權 (CJK)

[t͡ɕu˧˩ ŋiə˦ˀ˥ naːm˧˧ nɨ˦ˀ˥ ʔɓïŋ˨˩ kwiən˨˩]

[t͡ɕʊw˧˨ ŋiə˧˨ naːm˧˧ nɨ˧˨ ʔɓɨn˦˩ kwiəŋ˦˩]

[cʊw˨˩˦ ŋiə˨˩˦ naːm˧˧ nɨ˨˩˦ ʔɓɨn˨˩ wiəŋ˨˩]

From chủ nghĩa (主義, “doctrine, -ism”), nam nữ (男女, “male and female”) and bình quyền (平權, “equal rights”).


feminizmus

head

feminizmus (usually uncountable, plural feminizmusok)

feminizmusok (plural)
feminizmus (nominative singular)
feminizmusok (nominative plural)
feminizmust (accusative singular)
feminizmusokat (accusative plural)
feminizmusnak (dative singular)
feminizmusoknak (dative plural)
feminizmussal (instrumental singular)
feminizmusokkal (instrumental plural)
feminizmusért (causal-final singular)
feminizmusokért (causal-final plural)
feminizmussá (singular translative)
feminizmusokká (plural translative)
feminizmusig (singular terminative)
feminizmusokig (plural terminative)
feminizmusként (essive-formal singular)
feminizmusokként (essive-formal plural)
feminizmusban (inessive singular)
feminizmusokban (inessive plural)
feminizmuson (singular superessive)
feminizmusokon (plural superessive)
feminizmusnál (adessive singular)
feminizmusoknál (adessive plural)
feminizmusba (illative singular)
feminizmusokba (illative plural)
feminizmusra (singular sublative)
feminizmusokra (plural sublative)
feminizmushoz (allative singular)
feminizmusokhoz (allative plural)
feminizmusból (elative singular)
feminizmusokból (elative plural)
feminizmusról (delative singular)
feminizmusokról (delative plural)
feminizmustól (ablative singular)
feminizmusoktól (ablative plural)
feminizmusé (singular)
feminizmusoké (plural)
feminizmuséi (singular)
feminizmusokéi (plural)
feminizmusom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
feminizmusaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
feminizmusod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
feminizmusaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
feminizmusa (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
feminizmusai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
feminizmusunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
feminizmusaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
feminizmusotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
feminizmusaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
feminizmusuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
feminizmusaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From English feminism. With -izmus ending.


feminizmus

sk-noun

feminizmus m inan (relational adjective feministický)

feministický (adjective relational)
nominative
feminizmus (singular)
feminizmy (plural)
genitive
feminizmu (singular)
feminizmov (plural)
dative
feminizmom (plural)
accusative
locative
feminizme (singular)
feminizmoch (plural)
instrumental
feminizmom (singular)
feminizmami (plural)


ווײַב

yi-noun

ווײַב • (vayb) f or n, plural ווײַבער (vayber), diminutive ווײַבל (vaybl)

vayb (romanization)
vayber (romanization)
vaybl (romanization)

From Old High German wīb, related to Old Saxon wīf (whence Low German Wief), Middle Dutch wijf (whence Dutch wijf), Old English wīf (whence English wife), Old Norse víf (whence Common Scandinavian viv). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wībą.


φεμινισμός

head

φεμινισμός • (feminismós) m (plural φεμινισμοί)

feminismós (romanization)
φεμινισμοί (plural)
φεμινισμός (nominative singular)
φεμινισμοί (nominative plural)
φεμινισμού (genitive singular)
φεμινισμών (genitive plural)
φεμινισμό (accusative singular)
φεμινισμούς (accusative plural)
φεμινισμέ (singular vocative)
φεμινισμοί (plural vocative)

From French féminisme, from Latin femina (“woman”).


פמיניזם

he-noun

פֶמִינִיזְם • (feminízm) m

פֶמִינִיזְם (canonical)
feminízm (romanization)

feminism (the social theory or political movement)


androcracy

(government, sociology) Government or rule by men.


feminal

en-adj

feminal (comparative more feminal, superlative most feminal)

more feminal (comparative)
most feminal (superlative)

Of or pertaining to women, femininity or feminism


bluehair

Compound of blue + hair.
The "elderly person" sense, first documented in the 1980s, refers to the blue rinse once used by older women to conceal grey hair.
The second sense emerged from the stereotypical association of dyed blue hair with social-justice activists.

I have memories from a young age in which my father is yelling about "blue hairs" and their inability to drive. And everyone remembers that scene in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" in which the old lady cannot see over the steering wheel and is swerving down the road.

1997, Karin Vonesh, "Who are the worst drivers of all?", Southwords (Maine South High School, Park Ridge, IL), Volume 34, Issue 7, 19 December 1997, page 3

He'd recently swiped the little orange bottle of OxyContin from the old hag he often watched on Tuesday nights when her cold, indifferent middle-aged daughter played bingo with the other bluehairs from the strip-mall salon she frequented.

2011, Lola Newmar, Devlin's Beast, page 33:

“Anyone can join,” O'Neill says. “We have age ranges from children to blue hairs.”

2019, Chris O'Neill, quoted in Jordan Bradley, "Do Something Different: Try These Alternative Recreation Options", Encore (Michigan), June 2019, page 25

(slang, derogatory or humorous) An elderly person, especially a woman or one viewed as senile, old-fashioned, or out of touch.


Dworkinian

Dworkinian (comparative more Dworkinian, superlative most Dworkinian)

more Dworkinian (comparative)
most Dworkinian (superlative)

Of or pertaining to Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005), American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography.


mansplaining

Blend of man + explaining, or from mansplain + -ing.

Mansplaining isn't just the act of explaining while male, of course; many men manage to explain things every day without in the least insulting their listeners... Mansplaining is when a dude tells you, a woman, how to do something you already know how to do, or how you are wrong about something you are actually right about, or miscellaneous and inaccurate "facts" about something you know a hell of a lot more about than he does.

2009 May 8, Karen Healey, “A woman's born to weep and fret”, in Karen Healey's Livejournal:

It's hard to appreciate the full pathological depths of mansplaining unless you've read late-period Heinlein, an experience comparable to being trapped in an elevator for six hours with a boorish know-it-all offering his theories on economics, politics, sex, aesthetics, military strategy, investing and myriad other topics.

2014 December 1, Jeet Heer, Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays & Profiles, The Porcupine's Quill, →ISBN, page 179:

“Cognitive therapy” is the fancy clinical term for what is otherwise known as “mansplaining.”

2015 December 7, James Taranto, “You're Being Hysterical. Calm Down.”, in The Wall Street Journal:

(informal, derogatory) The act of condescendingly explaining something, particularly by a man to a woman, in order to appear knowledgeable, or from a mistaken presumption that she has an inferior understanding of the topic.


girlzine

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Impatient horniness — the stereotypically male variety — shapes the credo of the on-line girlzine Minx.

2000, Benjamin DeMott, Killer woman blues:

On another floor there was a fanzine workshop, as well as a putting-on-gigs workshop, an extensive girlzine stall and a rape crisis information point.

2001, Chérie Turner, Everything you need to know about the riot grrrl movement:

On the one hand feminist ideas are increasingly taken for granted across a range of media and genres, vibrant girlzines spring up all over the world, and the Web is home to an enormous diversity of feminist ideas[…]

2007, Rosalind Gill, Gender and the Media, page 2:

A zine written predominantly by and for girls, specifically the riot grrrl subculture.


bra burner

After protests against bras and other emblems of femininity in the 1960s; see Bra burning.

(derogatory, slang) A strident feminist.


weaker sex

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For a man raised since birth to be strong, resolute, spare with words, and never to bow to the weepings and handwringings of the weaker sex, he had poured out his heart in that letter.

2013, Peter McAra, A World Apart, page 14:

"There's always a reason behind a lie. People can be very good at lying. Women can be especially good at it because they're the weaker sex and we, that's what the books say, and we want to protect them and not have anyone take advantage of them. At least I do," Farese said during closing statements Wednesday.

2017 April 22, “Attorney in Tennessee Rape Trial Says Women are Good Liars Because ‘They’re the Weaker Sex’”, in KTLA5:

(now offensive) Women; the female gender.


antifeminista

gl-adj

antifeminista m or f (plural antifeministas)


antifeminista

pt-noun

antifeminista m or f by sense (plural antifeministas)

antifeminist (person antagonistic to feminism)


antifeminista

es-adj

antifeminista m or f (masculine and feminine plural antifeministas)

antifeministas (feminine masculine plural)


queer studies

The study, based on critical theory, of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity, usually focusing on LGBT.


radfem

"How come a radfem like you didn't keep your last name after you got married?" Mosko asked.

1999, Michael Jahn, Dorian Yeager, & Barbara Paul, A New York State of Crime, Worldwide, →ISBN, page 39:

In their philosophical pursuit of answers to ultimate questions, the radfems get mired in the multi-syllabic muck of over-intellectualization, lacing their ideas with obscure cross-references and mind-numbing bombast […]

2003, Kenneth Lasson, Trembling in the Ivory Tower: Excesses in the Pursuit of Truth and Tenure, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 103:

Dr. Brimacombe firmly believed that just because she was a radfem, there was no need to dress in drab. She was frilly and feminine in the peachy-pinky, frou-frou frock and matching heels recommended by her fashion consultant.

2008, Peter Innes, The Man with the Grasshopper Mind, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 91:

It was passionate trans women activists online whose strong advocacy of their right to exist as women in the world showed me just how dehumanising the trans-hostile rhetoric is from some radfems about them.

2018 November 28, Viv Smythe, “I'm credited with having coined the word 'Terf'. Here's how it happened”, in The Guardian:

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A radical feminist.


unfeminist

en-adj

unfeminist (comparative more unfeminist, superlative most unfeminist)

more unfeminist (comparative)
most unfeminist (superlative)

DEPENDING on who is doing the talking, fashion is bourgeois, girly, unfeminist, conformist, elitist, frivolous, anti-intellectual and a cultural stepchild barely worth the attention paid to even the most minor arts.

2007 September 2, Guy Trebay, “Admit It. You Love It. It Matters.”, in New York Times: