feministyczny

pl-adj

feministyczny (not comparable, derived adverb feministycznie)

feministyczny (masculine nominative singular)
feministyczna (feminine nominative singular)
feministyczne (neuter nominative singular)
feministyczni (nominative plural virile)
feministyczne (nominative plural)
feministycznego (genitive masculine singular)
feministycznej (feminine genitive singular)
feministycznego (genitive neuter singular)
feministycznych (genitive plural)
feministycznych (genitive plural virile)
feministycznemu (dative masculine singular)
feministycznej (dative feminine singular)
feministycznemu (dative neuter singular)
feministycznym (dative plural)
feministycznym (dative plural virile)
feministycznego (accusative animate masculine singular)
feministyczny (accusative inanimate masculine singular)
feministyczną (accusative feminine singular)
feministyczne (accusative neuter singular)
feministycznych (accusative plural virile)
feministyczne (accusative plural)
feministycznym (instrumental masculine singular)
feministyczną (feminine instrumental singular)
feministycznym (instrumental neuter singular)
feministycznymi (instrumental plural)
feministycznymi (instrumental plural virile)
feministycznym (locative masculine singular)
feministycznej (feminine locative singular)
feministycznym (locative neuter singular)
feministycznych (locative plural)
feministycznych (locative plural virile)

feminist (relating to or in accordance with feminism)


女史

/ny²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ny²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ʂʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

(historiography, feminism) feminist history; herstory


Butlerian

en-adj

Butlerian (comparative more Butlerian, superlative most Butlerian)

more Butlerian (comparative)
most Butlerian (superlative)

As [Mae] West aptly demonstrates, theatrical performance, performance in everyday life, and Butlerian performativity suggest how both actresses and prostitutes employ a variety of strategies to intervene in their discursive representations.

2005, Kirsten Pullen, Actresses and Whores: On Stage and in Society, page 21:

As we have explained, Butlerian theory affords us a way of understanding gendered, heterosexual relations that illuminates and helps to make sense of the (non-)responses of our participants.

2015, Tracy Morison, Catriona Macleod, Men's Pathways to Parenthood: Silence and Heterosexual Gendered Norms, page 47:

In Butt, gender is aesthetically transcended: instead of a Butlerian gender performance that destabilizes masculinity through parody, or a celebration of the destruction of the masculine ego-ideal, which Bersani foregrounds, we find a non-essentialist transformation of the materiality of the male body.

2022, Peter Rehberg, Hipster Porn: Queer Masculinities and Affective Sexualities in the Fanzine Butt, page 91:

Of or relating to Judith Butler (born 1956), American philosopher focused on feminism, queer theory, and ethics.


phallocracy

en-noun

phallocracy (countable and uncountable, plural phallocracies)

Therefore, despite its political patriarchy, Athens cannot be considered—horrid word—a phallocracy.

A society or government of, or dominated by, men.


eilit

head

eilit f (genitive singular eilite or eilte, nominative plural eilití or eilte)

eilite (genitive singular)
eilte (genitive singular)
eilití (nominative plural)
eilte (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
eilit (indefinite singular)
eilití (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a eilit (indefinite singular)
a eilití (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
eilite (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an eilit (definite singular)
na heilití (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na heilite (definite singular)
na n-eilití (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an eilit (definite singular)
don eilit (definite singular)
leis na heilití (definite plural)
nominative (indefinite)
eilit (indefinite singular)
eilte (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a eilit (indefinite singular)
a eilte (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
eilte (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an eilit (definite singular)
na heilte (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na heilte (definite singular)
na n-eilte (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an eilit (definite singular)
don eilit (definite singular)
leis na heilte (definite plural)
eilit
n-eilit
heilit

From Old Irish elit, ailit (“doe, hind”), from Proto-Celtic *elantī, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic eilid.


profeminism

en-noun

profeminism (countable and uncountable, plural profeminisms)


womon

From woman; respelled so as not to contain man.

Womon seeks womon to share 2 bdrm apt in JP.

1980 April 19, “Classified advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:

I don't think she was saying that you become responsible for the racism directed at you once you identify as a black womon, only that one could not assume that any given netizen was or was not a member of a minority without self-identification.

1996 December 6, Suki L. McDonough, “What's Up?”, in soc.women.lesbian-and-bi (Usenet):

But it does insure that the community won't lose the land if a womon decides, for whatever reason, not to pay.

1996, Judith Blazer Foster, “Land in the Ozarks”, in The new Our Right To Love: A Lesbian Resource Book, page 67:

(nonstandard) Feminist spelling of woman


blushing bride

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Originally a reference to a virgin bride who, lacking sexual experience, might be nervous about her wedding night.

My beautiful blushing bride, Sheila here, and I - We have come all the way up here to god’s green country to... Kill you. Clean you. And eat you.

2009, Benjamin Gilton, The Missing Dinner Guests:

Dana Jackson was not your average blushing bride. You see, she went down the aisle on her 100th birthday.

2012, Melissa Locker, “Bride Ties the Knot on Her 100th Birthday”, in Time:


brick house

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Possibly coined in 1977 from the song "Brick House" by The Commodores, who took it from the older expression built like a brick shithouse.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A house or type of construction made of bricks or blocks of masonry.


hystory

hystory (countable and uncountable, plural hystories)

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Wordplay, replacing the supposed occurrence of the male pronoun his with hystero-; compare herstory.

(feminism, very rare) Nonstandard spelling of history.


feimineachas

head

feimineachas m (genitive singular feimineachais)

feimineachais (genitive singular)
nominative (indefinite)
feimineachas (indefinite singular)
vocative (indefinite)
a fheimineachais (indefinite singular)
genitive (indefinite)
feimineachais (indefinite singular)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an feimineachas (definite singular)
genitive (definite)
an fheimineachais (definite singular)
dative (definite)
leis an bhfeimineachas (definite singular)
don fheimineachas (definite singular)
feimineachas
fheimineachas
bhfeimineachas


cliterati

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Its first meeting, held at Eve Ensler's apartment, was a who's who, as Cuomo puts it, of "the New York cliterati," including Urvashi Vaid, Laura Flanders, Sarah Schulman and other notables.

2004, Laura Flanders, The W effect: Bush's war on women, Feminist Press at the City University of New York, page 248:

Significant figures in the feminism movements.


sultaness

From Middle English soudanesse. By surface analysis, sultan + -ess.


Bloomerism

From Bloomer + -ism, after women's-rights advocate Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–1894).

A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land. A sort of shemale dress you call Bloomerism; a fashion of Sister Jonathan's.

1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217:

(historical, sometimes derogatory) Support for equal rights for women; an early form of feminism, especially in relation to dress.


ფემინიზმი

peminizmi (romanization)
ფემინიზმი (nominative singular)
ფემინიზმმა (ergative singular)
ფემინიზმს (dative singular)
ფემინიზმს (dative singular)
ფემინიზმსაs) (dative singular)
ფემინიზმსაsa) (dative singular)
ფემინიზმის (genitive singular)
ფემინიზმის (genitive singular)
ფემინიზმისაs) (genitive singular)
ფემინიზმისაsa) (genitive singular)
ფემინიზმით (instrumental singular)
ფემინიზმით (instrumental singular)
ფემინიზმითაt) (instrumental singular)
ფემინიზმითაta) (instrumental singular)
ფემინიზმად (adverbial singular)
ფემინიზმად (adverbial singular)
ფემინიზმადაd) (adverbial singular)
ფემინიზმადაda) (adverbial singular)
ფემინიზმო (singular vocative)
-ზე
ფემინიზმზე (singular)
-თან
ფემინიზმთან (singular)
-ში
ფემინიზმში (singular)
-ვით
ფემინიზმივით (singular)
-თვის
ფემინიზმისთვის (singular)
-ებრ
ფემინიზმისებრ (singular)
-კენ
ფემინიზმისკენ (singular)
-გან
ფემინიზმისგან (singular)
-ადმი
ფემინიზმისადმი (singular)
-დან
ფემინიზმიდან (singular)
-ურთ
ფემინიზმითურთ (singular)
-მდე
ფემინიზმამდე (singular)


matrixial

The third element of the matrixial model is metramorphosis: a process of change that is a result of nonphallic ways of contacting the archaic m/Other.

2011, Pat Paxson, Art and Intuition: Borderlines and Boundaries:

Of or relating to a feminist film theory introduced by Bracha L. Ettinger.


Irigarayan

en-adj

Irigarayan (comparative more Irigarayan, superlative most Irigarayan)

more Irigarayan (comparative)
most Irigarayan (superlative)

Of or relating to Luce Irigaray (born 1932), Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, and sociologist.


Cixousian

Cixousian (comparative more Cixousian, superlative most Cixousian)

more Cixousian (comparative)
most Cixousian (superlative)

Worsham understands that Junker needs to validate Cixousian theory through composition pedagogy in order for her, like other compositionists, to find it to be a useful theory.

1997, Sidney I. Dobrin, Constructing Knowledges:

The Cixousian sentence is manipulated from back to front by its intrinsic infinity: the sentence is no longer a logical unit, a synthetic entity, a pause in the concept, but a stream with no banks or external constraints[…]

2005, Lee A. Jacobus, Regina Barreca, Hélène Cixous: Critical Impressions, page 81:

Of or relating to Hélène Cixous (born 1937), French feminist writer, philosopher, and literary critic.


Minoress

From Medieval Latin minorissa, from Latin minor (“little, lesser”) + -issa (“-ess”), under influence from Norman frere-menouresse and Middle French sereur meneuresse (“lesser sister”), from menour (“minor”) + -esse (“-ess”), after the model of Medieval Latin Fratres Minores (“Lesser Brothers”), chosen by St. Francis to inculcate humility in the order's members. Equivalent to minor + -ess. Doublet of minoress and Sister Minor.

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Also I. bequethe to the Religiouse Wommen the Menouresses dwellyngge witħoute algate of london̄, C. s. to be departed amonge [hem] by euene porcion̄, for to synge and rede and to praye diuine seruice for my lordes soule Sir Thomas West, and myn, and for alle christene soules, and for the estates of Thomas my sone, and Iohane his wyf, and for her children.

1395, Alice West, last will and testement, p. 3

These Nunnes were of the order of S. Clare, and called Minoresses.

1631, John Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments, page 755:

The chief house of the Clares in England stood near Aldgate; it was built by Blanche, queen of Navarre, and her husband Edmund, earl of Lancaster, Leicester and Darby, son to Henry III. and brother to Edward I. These nuns were Urbanists, and enjoyed revenues. They were called Clares or Minoresses, and their house the Minories...

1759, Alban Butler, The Lives of the... Saints, volume IV, page 87:

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


mansplainer

Think about the men you know. Do any of them display that delightful mixture of privilege and ignorance that leads to condescending, inaccurate explanations, delivered with the rock-solid conviction of rightness and that slimy certainty that of course he is right, because he is the man in this conversation?

2009 May 8, Karen Healey, “A woman's born to weep and fret”, in Karen Healey's Livejournal, retrieved 2012-05-26:

(informal) One (especially a man) who mansplains.


mansplain

en-verb

mansplain (third-person singular simple present mansplains, present participle mansplaining, simple past and past participle mansplained)

mansplains (present singular third-person)
mansplaining (participle present)
mansplained (participle past)
mansplained (past)

Blend of man + explain, equivalent to man + -splain.

But what's getting all of the attention in the bill is the part where legislators have banded together to mansplain the various shadings of the crime of "rape" to America.

2011 February 1, Jason Linkins, “What’s behind the drive to redefine rape in new and insane ways?”, in The Huffington Post, archived from the original on 2016-04-01:

There were some Occupy-style solutions: those whose voices dominate should “step back” for an entire meeting. […] Men should notice when they are “mansplaining” (this one got a thunderous ovation).

2012 May 18, Sarah Seltzer, “Can Occupy fight back against the war on women?”, in The Nation, archived from the original on 2013-08-14:

Positioning himself as the white guy mansplaining to a black woman what’s best for her, The New York Times’s John Caramanica argues that Rihanna’s attempt, on the album, “to make public art with the person who physically abused you is immature, pre-feminist, post-ethics.”

2015 February 27, Robin James, Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism, Alresford, Hants: Zero Books, →ISBN:

(informal, derogatory) To explain (something) condescendingly (to a female listener), especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it merely because she is female.


femifascist

/ˌfɛmɪˈfæʃɪst/

Blend of feminist + fascist, perhaps coined as an alternative to feminazi to avoid the genocidal connotations of Nazi.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:femifascist.

(US, offensive, rare, derogatory) A radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views.


testeria

From testes, coined as a feminist response to the use of hysteria.

(rare) Behavior exhibiting excessive irritability, aggression, or unreasonableness.


vrouwenkiesrecht

From vrouw (“woman”) + -en- + kiesrecht (“suffrage”).


teoiric an fheimineachais

head

teoiric an fheimineachais f (genitive singular teoiric an fheimineachais)

teoiric an fheimineachais (genitive singular)
teoiric an fheimineachais
theoiric an fheimineachais
dteoiric an fheimineachais


intersectionality

en-noun

intersectionality (countable and uncountable, plural intersectionalities)

the intersectionality of these issues

the intersectionality of race, gender, class, ethnicity, age, generation, marital status, and place of origin

The feminist movement has also laid the groundwork for new intersectionalities with other movements. The intersectionality of interests between legal feminists and fem-crits has perpetuated a progressive CLS [Critical Legal Studies]-tilt within feminist legal discourse.

1993 March, Journal of Legal Education, volume 43, number 1, [Durham, N.C.]: Association of American Law Schools, →OCLC, page 45:

With men who are unemployed men or have limited access to work this heightening of masculinity within the interior of the familial relationship is of particular relevance with differences attributable to the intersectionality of race, class, culture and sexual orientation.

1998, Rhea V. Almeida, “The Dislocation of Women's Experience in Family Therapy”, in Rhea V. Almeida, editor, Transformations of Gender and Race: Family and Developmental Perspectives, New York, N.Y.: Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 16:

[Lisa] Bowleg details how she went about a psychological study of Black lesbian women only to find—in the midst of data collection—that the study had been configured along an additive model of identity that could not account for the intersectionality of her participants' experiences.

2014, Patrick R. Grzanka, “Introduction: Intersectional Objectivity”, in Patrick R. Grzanka, editor, Intersectionality: A Foundations and Frontiers Reader, Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, →ISBN, page xx:

The quality or state of being intersectional, that is, of being characterized by intersection (especially of multiple forms of discrimination).


rape culture

rape culture (countable and uncountable, plural rape cultures)

From rape (“non-consensual sex”) + culture.

By exposing the facts of our rapes, the numbers of them, the events surrounding them, and the men who commit them, we begin to break down the myths that support the rape culture.

1977 Spring, Suzanne Lacy, “"Three Weeks in May": Speaking Out on Rape, a Political Art Piece”, in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, volume 2, number 1, →JSTOR, page 67:

In a rape culture both men and women assume that sexual violence is a fact of life, inevitable as death or taxes.

1993 September 1, Emilie Buchwald with Martha Roth and Pamela R. Fletcher, Transforming a Rape Culture, Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, →OL, page vii:

To prevent further incidences of rape on college campuses, we need to understand what it is about fraternities in particular and college life in general that may contribute to the maintenance of a rape culture on college campuses.

1996 April, A. Ayres Boswell with Joan Z. Spade, “Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women?”, in Gender & Society, volume 10, number 2, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 134:

Rape culture is regarding violence as sexy and sexuality as violent. Rape culture is treating rape as a compliment, as the unbridled passion stirred in a healthy man by a beautiful woman, making irresistible the urge to rip open her bodice or slam her against a wall, or a wrought-iron fence, or a car hood, or pull her by her hair, or shove her onto a bed, or any one of a million other images of fight-fucking in movies and television shows and on the covers of romance novels that convey violent urges are inextricably linked with (straight) sexuality.

2009 October 9, Melissa McEwan, “Rape Culture 101”, in Shakesville, retrieved 2012-04-05:

Women's rights activists in Britain and the US have accused Facebook of promoting rape and "rape culture" after the social networking site refused to take down pages on which users made jokes and apparent confessions about sexual assault.

2011 September 30, Lizzy Davies, The Guardian:

Or "I wrote on rape culture my junior year at Brown / So I'm allowed to say what all his raps are about"

2011, “Backpackers”, in Camp, performed by Childish Gambino:

A culture, environment or society where rape (a form of sexual assault) is common, and in which social attitudes or practices work to trivialize sexual violence, make rape seem normal, or shift responsibility from rapists to rape victims.


نسوية

ar-noun

نِسْوِيَّة • (niswiyya) f

نِسْوِيَّة (canonical)
niswiyya (romanization)
نِسْوِيَّة (ar-infl-a indefinite informal singular triptote)
النِّسْوِيَّة (ar-infl-a definite informal singular triptote)
نِسْوِيَّة (ar-infl-a construct informal singular triptote)
نِسْوِيَّةٌ (ar-infl-a indefinite nominative singular triptote)
النِّسْوِيَّةُ (ar-infl-a definite nominative singular triptote)
نِسْوِيَّةُ (ar-infl-a construct nominative singular triptote)
نِسْوِيَّةً (accusative ar-infl-a indefinite singular triptote)
النِّسْوِيَّةَ (accusative ar-infl-a definite singular triptote)
نِسْوِيَّةَ (accusative ar-infl-a construct singular triptote)
نِسْوِيَّةٍ (ar-infl-a genitive indefinite singular triptote)
النِّسْوِيَّةِ (ar-infl-a definite genitive singular triptote)
نِسْوِيَّةِ (ar-infl-a construct genitive singular triptote)

Relative noun (nisba) composed of نِسْوَة (niswa, “women”) + ـِيَّة (-iyya).


pornsick

en-adj

pornsick (comparative more pornsick, superlative most pornsick)

more pornsick (comparative)
most pornsick (superlative)

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(informal) Psychologically damaged, sadistic, misogynistic, etc. as a result of excessive viewing of pornography.


mansplanation

Like I said, I can see how a person can take the song as a mansplanation of an issue primarily pertaining to women, but was that Lupe’s intention?

2012, Ameer Hasan Loggins, "Bitch Bad: Misogyny, Misappropriated Anger & 'Me-ism'", Onyx Express (University of California, Berkeley), Volume 18, Issue 1, Spring 2012, page 9

English physician Samuel Farr was pretty certain women couldn't get pregnant without an orgasm. The Guardian quotes the mansplanation from his 1814 Elements of Medical Jurisprudence: "For without an excitation of lust, or the enjoyment of pleasure in the venereal act, no conception can probably take place. So that if an absolute rape were to be perpetrated, it is not likely she would become pregnant."

2012 August, Erika Eichelberger, “Men Defining Rape: A History”, in Mother Jones:

Vesta's left me alone with him so he can give me some sort of Big Daddy lecture. Because the thing I need right now is a mansplanation of the error of my thinking.

2014 October 28, Alex Marwood, The Killer Next Door, Penguin, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

(informal) A condescending explanation given by a male explainer to a female listener, especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it because she is a woman.


Beauvoirian

Beauvoirian (comparative more Beauvoirian, superlative most Beauvoirian)

more Beauvoirian (comparative)
most Beauvoirian (superlative)

Of or relating to Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), French writer, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist.


femifascism

From femifascist, or blend of feminism + fascism.

(slang, offensive, derogatory, rare) Radical or militant feminism, intolerant of opposing views.


gynocriticism

en-noun

gynocriticism (usually uncountable, plural gynocriticisms)

From gyno- + criticism, coined by Elaine Showalter in the essay Toward a Feminist Poetics.

The historical study of women writers as a distinct literary tradition.


womanist

en-adj

womanist (comparative more womanist, superlative most womanist)

more womanist (comparative)
most womanist (superlative)

For Walker, the battle against patriarchal society and its multiple sins of sexism, racism, classism and homophobia (among others) needs the womanist spirit of defiance and irreverence, on the one hand, and the desire for social integration, on the other.

2000, Tuzyline Jita Allan, “The Color Purple: A Study of Walker's Womanist Gospel”, in Harold Bloom, editor, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 120:

Relating to or in accordance with womanism.


Showalterian

Showalterian (comparative more Showalterian, superlative most Showalterian)

more Showalterian (comparative)
most Showalterian (superlative)

Of or relating to Elaine Showalter (born 1941), American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues.


transfeminism

en-noun

transfeminism (countable and uncountable, plural transfeminisms)

A branch of feminism concerned with transgender issues.


New Woman

These ladies, actuated by the modern spirit of independence, have yet nothing in common with the “New Woman”—if, which we doubt, this feminine Frankenstein be indeed among us, waiting to fall upon us to our undoing.

1896–1897, Wilhelmina Wimble, “Incomes for Ladies”, in The Lady's Realm, volume 1, page 104:

(historical) An educated, independent feminist of the late 19th century.


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Gilmanian

en-adj

Gilmanian (comparative more Gilmanian, superlative most Gilmanian)

more Gilmanian (comparative)
most Gilmanian (superlative)

While the representation of the ideal is obvious in Herland and in other works featuring utopian landscapes, the impact of Gilmanian idealism spills over, perhaps more subtly, into much of her short fiction as well.

1997, Denise D. Knight, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Study of the Short Fiction, page 79:

In Gilman's union, acceptance for membership requires an initiation ritual of Gilmanian feminism both for men and women.

2011, Carolina Núņez Puente, Feminism and Dialogics, page 159:

Of or relating to Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), American sociologist, feminist, writer, and lecturer for social reform.


Friedanian

Friedanian (comparative more Friedanian, superlative most Friedanian)

more Friedanian (comparative)
most Friedanian (superlative)

Relating to Betty Friedan (1921–2006), American writer, activist, and feminist.


slutwalk

One of the organisers of the slutwalks in the UK said: 'Comments like these only serve to shame victims into silence.'

2013, Janet Batsleer, Youth Working with Girls and Women in Community Settings:

A kind of protest march against rape culture and slut-shaming, generally led by young women who dress in revealing clothing.


hotsy-totsy

hotsy-totsy (comparative more hotsy-totsy, superlative most hotsy-totsy)

more hotsy-totsy (comparative)
most hotsy-totsy (superlative)

I could never forget his supercilious sarcasm when I walked out on the practice field of his hotsy-totsy college, and he listened to my Flats accent, and listened to me asking him with Flats words how did I go about playing the game of football for his school.

1952, Lester Dent, Cry at Dusk, MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Integrated Media, published 2012, →ISBN:

[…] and every spring, in the fullness of their benevolence, they sent him and my mother for a hotsy-totsy free weekend in Atlantic City, to a fancy goyische hotel no less, there (along with all the other insurance agents in the Middle Atlantic states who had exceeded the A.E.S., their annual expectation of sales) to be intimidated by the desk clerk, the waiter, the bellboy, not to mention the puzzled paying guests.

1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Vintage International, published 1994, →ISBN:

So unlike some of these hotsy-totsy movie stars athletes rappers and rock and roll stars who spend all their money on expensive cars clothes mansions and go bankrupt from excessing, I will not.

1996, Terry McMillan, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Signet, →ISBN:

(slang, usually derogatory) Fancy, sophisticated.


antifeminismo

antifeminism (any belief antagonistic to feminism)


Paglian

Sheaffer takes a Paglian position on the necessity for feminists to confront the darker aspects of sexuality.

1999, Mimi R. Gladstein, Chris M. Sciabarra, Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, page 16:

The new goddesses are butch Amazon women; they are the vanguard of the Dionescian/Paglian reaction against dogmatic feminism.

2003, Julie V. Gottlieb, Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain's Fascist Movement, 1923-45:

She manages to shoehorn in cameos by Brian Freeman of the former performance group Pomo Afro Homos (1990-95), the singer-songwriter Toshi Reagon, whose hilarious explication of watermelon's cultural significance leaves the viewer baffled as to whether it's self-parody or a full-court display of Paglian earnestness.

2013, B. Ruby Rich, New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut, page 69:

Of or relating to Camille Paglia (born 1947), American teacher, feminist, and social critic.


transwomyn

From transwoman, with woman respelled womyn (see that entry).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:transwomyn.

(nonstandard) Alternative spelling of trans womyn


Bechdel test

After cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of a 1985 Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip that popularized the test. Reportedly first used in 2007.

It also will enable users to determine if a project passes the Bechdel Test, measuring whether two female characters speak to each other about anything other than a man.

2019 April 26, Melena Ryzik, “Screenplay Software Adds Tool to Assess a Script’s Inclusiveness”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Finally, the percentage of musicals that pass the Bechdel test but not the jobs test has also remained consistent―at under 10% for the entire 75 years studied. These results imply that it is far more likely for a musical to pass the Bechdel test if a female character is employed in it; perhaps having a focus other than men for a character aids in more progressive portrayals.

2019 September 5, Jessica Sternfeld, Elizabeth L. Wollman, The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical, Routledge, →ISBN:

A feminist test for evaluating a work of fiction by whether it contains (i) at least two women (especially, named female characters) (ii) who talk to each other (iii) about something other than a man.

Alison Bechdel
Bechdel test
Dykes to Watch Out For


chill girl

[Chill girls naturally] have tons of dude friends, they're not invested in the person they're casually sleeping with, and they like sports and beer.

2014 October 19, Anna Breslaw, “What Happens When the Chill Girl Falls in Love”, in Cosmopolitan:

(slang) A girlfriend considered by her boyfriend to be self-sufficient, "low-maintenance" and "chilled out".


feministly

en-adv

feministly (comparative more feministly, superlative most feministly)

more feministly (comparative)
most feministly (superlative)

I would like to acknowledge […] Sue Wright for sharing her knowledge feministly […]

2000, Stephen Hussey, Paul Richard Thompson, The Roots of Environmental Consciousness:

So we have Hero writing not very feministly to Leander: 'I cannot be patient for Love! We burn with equal fires, but I am not equal to you in strength; men methinks must have stronger natures. […]

2013, John O'Connell, For the Love of Letters: The Joy of Slow Communication:


feminazism

Mike Schwartz raised the "matriarchal society in Sci Fi" issue as indicating that Sci Fi writers had experienced "feminazism."

1993 September 23, Tom Tilley, “Re: Who are the Feminazis?”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), message-ID <1993Sep23.011720.16180@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>:

(derogatory) Aggressive militant radical feminism.


slut-shaming

But now the hit musical Grease has become the latest target of ‘woke’ critics who have condemned it for racism, sexism, homophobia and ‘slut-shaming’.

2021 January 2, Katie Hind, “Grease is 'racist, rapey, homophobic and slut-shaming' and should never be shown on TV again, say woke snowflakes”, in The Daily Mail:

(uncountable) The act of making a person (especially a woman) feel guilty or inferior for sexual activity, desires, expression, or circumstances that deviate from traditional or orthodox gender expectations or religious or cultural standards.


slut-shaming

Unadapted borrowing from English slut-shaming.


genderism

en-noun

genderism (countable and uncountable, plural genderisms)

[pages 108-109:] Virtually all networks and platforms mobilizing against more pluralistic and non-heteronormative (and less biologistic), sexual education at schools systematically equal gender with "genderism", that is with "gender ideology".
[page 183:] [...] in Poland examples of women made famous by their opposition to "genderism" include [...]

2017, Roman Kuhar, David Paternotte, Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:

The letter reads: 'Gender ideology results from many decades of ideological and cultural changes rooted in Marxism and neomarxism promoted by some feminist movements and from sexual revolution. Genderism [...] claims that biological sex does not have any social significance and what matters is gender, cultural sex, […] According to this ideology, one can freely choose whether to be a man or a woman; one may also select their own sexual orientation' (List Pasterski 2013).

2020, Suzanne Clisby, Mark Johnson, Jimmy Turner, Theorising Cultures of Equality, Routledge, →ISBN:

(in right-wing usage, derogatory) Opposition to traditional gender roles; belief that gender exists separate from sex; "gender ideology"; a variously-defined catch-all for things like transgender rights and feminism to which antigenderism is opposed.


phallocrat

One who advocates or imposes phallocracy.


War on Women

(US, politics, US politics, derogatory) Political efforts and initiatives to reduce women's rights, especially their reproductive rights.


second-wave feminism

Obviously, the second-wave feminism of the ’60s and ’70s could be pretty factional as well; there were vicious internal fights over issues like lesbianism and pornography, as well as over white feminists’ blind spots about race.

2022 June 17, Michelle Goldberg, “The Future Isn’t Female Anymore”, in The New York Times:

A period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s in the United States and broadened the gender equality debate to include family, the workplace, reproductive rights, etc.


third-wave feminism

A period of feminist activity that began in the early 1990s as a response to perceived failures of second-wave initiatives to address the needs of women of many races, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and cultural backgrounds.


first-wave feminism

The question that many lesbians asked was whether all this work was being accomplished at the expense of other goals of the organization. Some made the frightening comparison to the "First Wave" of feminism, which dissolved after women achieved the right to vote.

1978 December 16, Cnidy Stein, “The Lavender Menace Lives”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 21, page 9:

The original period of concerted feminist activity during the 19th and early 20th century, focusing on de jure gender inequalities, primarily that of suffrage (the right to vote).


hooksian

en-adj

hooksian (comparative more hooksian, superlative most hooksian)

more hooksian (comparative)
most hooksian (superlative)

The book is unquestionably fashionable: the hot pink cover, littered with bell hooksian typography, opens to reveal overdesigned pages full of the trendiest graphics […]

1999, New Art Examiner, volume 26, numbers 5-10, page 67:

Ultimately, the play centers on signs, language, and back talk in a bell hooksian guise: how black women gain control over their environment by calling out and redressing the governing social constructs […]

2005, Carol Allen, Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000, page 110:

The most brutal character, O'Dog, (and therefore in hooksian logic the character who has swallowed the white myth, hook, line and sinker) survives at the end of the film.

2005, Paul Gormley, The New-brutality Film: Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema:

Of or relating to bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952), American feminist author and social activist.


femmage

en-noun

femmage (countable and uncountable, plural femmages)

Coined by Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer in the 1970s.

Any artwork created by women by assembling objects, as by collage, photomontage, etc.


Gilliganian

en-adj

Gilliganian (comparative more Gilliganian, superlative most Gilliganian)

more Gilliganian (comparative)
most Gilliganian (superlative)

Of or relating to Carol Gilligan (born 1936), American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist.


fauxminist

This organization exists to take away a freedom that is important to every woman of childbearing age. It is more accurate to call them FAUXminists against Choice!

1992 October 6, Mark Ira Kaufman, “Feminists For Life...Huh?”, in talk.abortion (Usenet):

"And you call yourself a feminist!" the baby sneers, her contempt as ill-concealed as a teenage boy's designer underpants. "Fauxminist! Fauxminist!" her big sister shrills.

2008 November 15, Susan Maushart, “Lippy pitbulls”, in The Australian:

2012, Bianca Pencz, "Beyoncé: feminist or fauxminist?", Vancouver Observer, 25 April 2012 (used in title only)

(slang, derogatory) An insincere or inauthentic feminist.


cockaludicrous

cockaludicrous (comparative more cockaludicrous, superlative most cockaludicrous)

more cockaludicrous (comparative)
most cockaludicrous (superlative)

From cock + -a- + ludicrous. Introduced in a 1987 book by feminist Mary Daly.

If we consent to this cockaludicrous conceit—if we believe that the Earth is a lump of unconscious matter owned by elite men—we are far more susceptible to the belief that we are equally powerless, passive, and possessed.

1993 October 1, Jane Caputi, Gossips, Gorgons & Crones: The Fates of the Earth, Santa Fe: Bear & Company, →ISBN, →OL, page 5:

What bothers me most is her dualistic outlook - and "men = bad, women = good" -- even *if* as she's stated it isn't *all* men and *all* women; Goddess Knows that men in power have been *such* jerks!!! so it's not hard to see where she's coming from, and in certain moods it just gives me great pleasure to see her blast 'em and expose their "cockaludicrous" commentary […]

1997 October 31, Richard Holmes, “Re: Feminist Theology ???”, in alt.feminism (Usenet):

The world could be so cockaludicrous, so full of snools and dickspeakers.

2010 December 26, Sara Corbett, “Gyno-theologian”, in New York Times Magazine, →ISSN, page 14:

(rare, slang, vulgar, derogatory) Ridiculously androcentric or patriarchal.


womanistic

womanistic (comparative more womanistic, superlative most womanistic)

more womanistic (comparative)
most womanistic (superlative)


Richian

Richian (comparative more Richian, superlative most Richian)

more Richian (comparative)
most Richian (superlative)

Of or relating to Adrienne Rich (1929–2012), American poet, essayist and feminist.


male gaze

(sociology) The implicit assumption or presentation of the viewpoint of a heterosexual man in films and other visual media, often manifesting in lingering, eroticized shots of women's bodies.


bamboo ceiling

Modeled on glass ceiling, popularized in 2005 by Jane Hyun in Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, see quotations.

The title Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling was selected because it acknowledges that Asian Americans do indeed face obstacles in the workplace and it asserts that there are cultural barriers that play a role in impeding career advancement.

2005, Jane Hyun, Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling, Harper Business, →ISBN, page xx:

Schools where admission is purely through a test, like the elite public New York City high school Stuyvesant, often have large percentages of Asian-Americans. The University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles are more than half Asian. That doesn’t help them integrate effectively, to pierce what some call the bamboo ceiling in the corporate and political worlds.

2012 November 1, Ethan Bronner, “Asian-Americans in the Argument”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-04-28:

Many Asian American attorneys are finding they may have excelled in law school and were able to land their first job, but their careers are not moving forward the way they would like. It has been described as a “bamboo ceiling.”

2014 April 14, Ed Silverstein, “Asian-American GCs meet in Chicago to expand career opportunities”, in Inside Counsel, retrieved 2014-04-28:

Especially in America, a social barrier to further promotion or progression, in employment and elsewhere, for a person of East Asian ethnicity.


anarcha-feminist

(politics, economics) A person who advocates anarcha-feminism.


chilly climate

chilly (“unfriendly or distant and cool”) + climate (“the context in general of a particular situation”)

A chilly climate is not conducive for women students' learning...

2008, Kimberly Turner Helms, Self-reflection During Transition to College, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, page 39:

Most frequently, issues of chilly climate are noted among women pursuing doctorates in the sciences and engineering.

2012, Margaret W Sallee, “The Individual and the Institution”, in On Becoming a Scholar: Socialization and Development in Doctoral Education, page 141:

(idiomatic) A male-dominated environment where both overt and subtle forms of discrimination lead to the unequal treatment of women


korephile

/ˈkɔːɹɪfaɪl/

/ˈkɔːɹɪfʌɪl/

From the Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl”) + -φῐ́λης (-phĭ́lēs, “-lover”), coined after korephilia and by analogy with paedophile.

compound

For quotations using this term, see Citations:korephile.

(rare) A woman or older female who is erotically attracted toward young (chiefly pre- and/or peripubescent) girls.

parthenophile

a person attracted to young women, virgins


TERF

Acronym of trans-exclusionary radical feminist. The earliest recorded use is from 2008 by trans-inclusive cisgender radical feminist Viv Smythe.

acronym

Dear “A Lesbian Democrat”
Your TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) agenda and what it represents is no better than the bigoted regressive agenda of the religious right.

2013, Toni Browning-Early, letter to the editor, QNotes, Volume 28, Number 6, 19 July - 1 August 2013, page 4

At the further extreme TERF’s^([sic]) actively promote the message that banning trans women from feminist gathering implies—that trans women are not really women at all.

2013 December, Rachel Eliason, “Wired This Way”, in ACCESSline, volume 27, number 12, page 13:

Perhaps the sheer nastiness of TERFs comes from the fact that they don’t just know they’ve lost; they know they were on the wrong side from the beginning.

2014, Roz Kaveney, "Woman Enough, The Advocate, 16 July 2014

Although some TERFs attend the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, none of my interviewees or other land-women have identified as a TERF, nor have any TERFs, to my knowledge, ever lived on women's land.

2018, Keridwen N. Luis, Herlands: Exploring the Women's Land Movement in the United States:

The point here isn't that some TERFs aren’t XX and some Nazis aren’t “purely” white (an imaginary category); it’s that their bigotry rests on assumptions about biology and genetics which are scientifically lazy, as if you can “see” race and gender in a meaningful yet simplistic and binary way.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A–Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 252:

That Rowling used terms like “gender critical” (the preferred descriptor of TERFs rather than, well, TERF); that she believes laws that enable trans people to use the bathrooms and changing rooms that match their gender identity will “open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside,” which she says is the “simple truth” but is not backed up by any evidence whatsoever; and that she paints the movement for trans rights as one that is “doing demonstrable harm” to women and girls and is “offering cover to predators like few before it” is proof enough of what her views are and who she aligns herself with, for all of her protestations that she has trans friends and cares about the safety of trans women.

2020 June 10, Esther Wang, “For the Love of God, Please Make J.K. Rowling Stop”, in Jezebel, archived from the original on 2022-11-10:

(see usage notes) A trans-exclusionary radical feminist; a radical feminist who does not consider trans women to be women, or thinks they should not be included in female spaces or organisations, and who considers trans men to be women; a person whose transphobia is expressed in feminist terms.


TERF

Son comunes las apelaciones a los partidos, con crítica de las TERF tanto a los partidos de derechas como a los de izquierdas que apoyan la libre identidad de género.

2022, Carme Ferré-Pavia, Gorka Zaldívar, “El feminismo trans excluyente en Twitter: un monólogo sesgado en #ContraElBorradoDeLasMujeres”, in Revista de Comunicación y Tecnologías Emergentes, volume 20, number 2:

TERF (a trans-exclusionary radical feminist)


femtard

Thus, these femtard bitches, with their belief that women are great and men are useless, and their conviction that women need to given lots of leg-ups and help, will be able to put this into practice and concentrate on hiring women only.

2005, MCP, “Re: Pointless personel ^([sic]) managers”, in soc.men (Usenet):

This Forbes article has been discussed on plenty of anti-feminist websites. It's fantastic, it's really pissed off a load of dim-witted femtards.

2006, Avenger, “Re: Guy talk hits career women where it hurts”, in soc.men (Usenet):


autoandrophilia

/ˌɔː.təʊˌæn.dɹəʊˈfɪ.li.ə/

Coordinate term: autogynephilia

In Blanchard's transsexualism typology, the proposed paraphilic tendency of a female person to be sexually aroused by the thought of becoming a male.


Aunt Thomasina

A feminization of Uncle Tom. See Thomasina.

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A black woman who is obsequiously servile to white authority, a black female race traitor.


Wittigian

en-adj

Wittigian (comparative more Wittigian, superlative most Wittigian)

more Wittigian (comparative)
most Wittigian (superlative)

Of or relating to Monique Wittig (1935–2003), French author and feminist theorist who wrote about overcoming socially enforced gender roles.


GCF

Now imagine that, as is the case with many British GCF philosophers, the instructor believes that trans women in women’s prisons pose an unacceptable threat to the safety of inmates in those prisons.

2019 August 6, Shannon Dea, “Academic freedom, scholarly responsibility and the new gender wars”, in University Affairs:

A GCF might claim that transwomen should not be included in the category ‘women’.

2019 August 12, Taryn Knox, Lynley Anderson, Alison Heather, “Transwomen in elite women’s sport – clarifying the nuances of our approach”, in Journal of Medical Ethics:

GCFs talk of my body and flesh and find it to be mutilated.

2019, Saoirse Caitlin O'Shea, “Cutting my dick off”, in Culture and Organization, volume 25, number 4, page 281:

gender-critical feminism
gender-critical feminism

A gender-critical (trans-exclusionary) feminist; an adherent of gender-critical feminism.


slut-shame

en-verb

slut-shame (third-person singular simple present slut-shames, present participle slut-shaming, simple past and past participle slut-shamed)

slut-shames (present singular third-person)
slut-shaming (participle present)
slut-shamed (participle past)
slut-shamed (past)

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There seems to be no middle ground between embracing one's inner porn star and slut-shaming the women who find themselves pressured or lured into sex-related work because they have few other options.

2013, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Heather Wood Rudúlph, Sexy Feminism: A Girl's Guide to Love, Success, and Style, Mariner Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 119:

His accuser was publicly reviled—viciously slut-shamed, in some cases—and withdrew from classes.

2014, Steve Almond, Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto, Melville House, published 2014, →ISBN:

Further, why is it OK for a prepubescent girl to play at sexy, but a teen girl gets slut-shamed for expressing and experimenting with her sexuality?

2014, Melissa Atkins Wardy, Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween, Chicago Review Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 6:

To make a person (especially a woman) feel guilty or inferior for sexual activity, desires, expression, or circumstances that deviate from traditional or orthodox gender expectations or religious or cultural standards.


Aunt Jane

By analogy with Uncle Tom through use of Jane as a similarly general name in popular culture.


φεμινίστρια

head

φεμινίστριες

φεμινίστρια • (feminístria) f (plural φεμινίστριες, masculine φεμινιστής)

el-noun

φεμινίστριες

feminístria (romanization)
φεμινίστριες (plural)
φεμινιστής (masculine)
φεμινίστρια (nominative singular)
φεμινίστριες (nominative plural)
φεμινίστριας (genitive singular)
φεμινιστριών (genitive plural)
φεμινίστρια (accusative singular)
φεμινίστριες (accusative plural)
φεμινίστρια (singular vocative)
φεμινίστριες (plural vocative)

el-decl-noun

φεμινίστριες

φεμινίστριας

φεμινιστριών

φεμινίστριες

φεμινίστριες


φεμινιστής

head

φεμινιστής • (feministís) m (plural φεμινιστές, feminine φεμινίστρια)

feministís (romanization)
φεμινιστές (plural)
φεμινίστρια (feminine)
φεμινιστής (nominative singular)
φεμινιστές (nominative plural)
φεμινιστή (genitive singular)
φεμινιστών (genitive plural)
φεμινιστή (accusative singular)
φεμινιστές (accusative plural)
φεμινιστή (singular vocative)
φεμινιστές (plural vocative)


φεμινιστικός

φεμινιστικός • (feministikós) m (feminine φεμινιστική, neuter φεμινιστικό)

feministikós (romanization)
φεμινιστική (feminine)
φεμινιστικό (neuter)
φεμινιστικός (masculine nominative singular)
φεμινιστική (feminine nominative singular)
φεμινιστικό (neuter nominative singular)
φεμινιστικοί (masculine nominative)
φεμινιστικές (feminine nominative plural)
φεμινιστικά (neuter nominative plural)
φεμινιστικού (genitive masculine singular)
φεμινιστικής (feminine genitive singular)
φεμινιστικού (genitive neuter singular)
φεμινιστικών (genitive masculine)
φεμινιστικών (feminine genitive plural)
φεμινιστικών (genitive neuter plural)
φεμινιστικό (accusative masculine singular)
φεμινιστική (accusative feminine singular)
φεμινιστικό (accusative neuter singular)
φεμινιστικούς (accusative masculine)
φεμινιστικές (accusative feminine plural)
φεμινιστικά (accusative neuter plural)
φεμινιστικέ (masculine singular vocative)
φεμινιστική (feminine singular vocative)
φεμινιστικό (neuter singular vocative)
φεμινιστικοί (masculine vocative)
φεμινιστικές (feminine plural vocative)
φεμινιστικά (neuter plural vocative)

el-decl-adj-positive

Declension of φεμινιστικός

Comparative: <i class="Grek mention" lang="el">πιο</i> + positive forms (e.g. πιο φεμινιστικός, etc.)
 Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο φεμινιστικός, etc.)

el-decl-adj-table

φεμινιστικός (feministikós)

φεμινιστική (feministikí)

φεμινιστικό (feministikó)

φεμινιστικοί (feministikoí)

φεμινιστικές (feministikés)

φεμινιστικά (feministiká)

φεμινιστικού (feministikoú)

φεμινιστικής (feministikís)

φεμινιστικού (feministikoú)

φεμινιστικών (feministikón)

φεμινιστικών (feministikón)

φεμινιστικών (feministikón)

φεμινιστικό (feministikó)

φεμινιστική (feministikí)

φεμινιστικό (feministikó)

φεμινιστικούς (feministikoús)

φεμινιστικές (feministikés)

φεμινιστικά (feministiká)

φεμινιστικέ (feministiké)

φεμινιστική (feministikí)

φεμινιστικό (feministikó)

φεμινιστικοί (feministikoí)

φεμινιστικές (feministikés)

φεμινιστικά (feministiká)


femcunt

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Femcunts love to say that we men need to fight against rape, and it's true, we do. I'd fight against rape, I wouldn't fight rape alongside feminists, but I'd fight it. But where are the feminists fighting for victims of slander?

2007, MCP [username], “Feminists love to claim that of all rapes reported, only 5% end up in prosecution”, in soc.men (Usenet):

This is an excellent example of female supremacist femcunts using whatever shitty logic they can to gain as many advantages that^([sic]) they can.

2007 October 5, MCP [username], “Equality Means Only Help Girls - Says Feminist Report To EOC”, in soc.men (Usenet):

You femcunts are all alike lol

2008 March 7, Avenger [username], “Re: Boy Age 8 Passes Law School Exam (Hillary and Obama failed lol)”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet):

“Some bitch,” Political mumbled. “You should know. She's always on the news. Her and Ribit the Horrible. Flapping their lips about something. Never thought I'd say this, but your femcunts are worse'n ours.”

2010, Brock Barrack, Touch Wood, iUniverse, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

(slang, vulgar, derogatory) An intolerant feminist, often used by anti-feminists to refer to a feminist in general.


womanifesto

en-noun

womanifesto (plural womanifestos or womanifestoes)

womanifestos (plural)
womanifestoes (plural)

Two centuries later, feminist literary critics analyzed these feminist polemics, or womanifestos, as texts that embody a struggle between reason and emotion.

2002, Elaine Showalter, Inventing Herself, page 28:

On that date, whatever else we demonstrate, let us not fear to demonstrate by our presentation of womanifestos everywhere that feminism has universal potential and imperatives.

1992, Contemporary American Voices, page 316:


matristic

en-adj

matristic (comparative more matristic, superlative most matristic)

more matristic (comparative)
most matristic (superlative)

(feminism) Being or relating to a prehistoric female-led society based around Mother Goddess worship.


clarissa

Borrowed from Italian clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Doublet of Clarisse, Clare, and Clarist.

[…] all these obscene references of a sexual nature punctuate the ritualistic prodigality of the Northeast and its winter cycle, and if in the main popular qualification of the character of the clarissa nun called Maria Ermelinda Correia, the composer of the sweet in the mouth of the people, as an expression of her overblown greediness.

2020, Richardo Ferreira de Almeida et al., “Popular Sweets in Douro Valley”, in Advances in Tourism, Technology, and Systems, page 188:

(Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Clarissa: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.


misogynoir

/mɪˌsɒd͡ʒəˈnwɑː/

/məˌsɑd͡ʒəˈnwɑɹ/

Blend of misogyny (“contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against women”) + French noir (“black”), coined by the African-American feminist activist and scholar Moya Bailey and first published in a 2010 online essay: see the quotation below.

coinage

My reorientation to the misogynoir ruling the radio took place when I tried to make the argument that “All the Way Turnt Up” was a great song because it didn’t objectify women. This was something I could get behind; a song simply extolling the youthful value of keeping the bass bumping in your vehicle. That was until I read the lyrics and found the choice lyric “three dike bitches, and they all wanna swallow.”

2010 March 14, Moya Bailey, “They Aren’t Talking about Me …”, in Crunk Feminist Collective, archived from the original on 2022-03-15:

Hip-hop feminist studies continues to tackle black sexual politics by discussing and challenging the persistence and prevalence of hip-hop "misogynoir" (the hatred of black women and girls), respectability politics, and compulsory heterosexuality within the music and the culture at large.

2013 spring, Aisha Durham, Brittany C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, “The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions Essay”, in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, volume 38, number 3, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 730:

Unfortunately, the idealization of white women is most often paired with the condemnation of black women, creating the intersectional problem of misogynoir: the combined racism and sexism black women face.

2014 September 24, Monica Cruz, “Someone Tell Kanye West to Stop Insulting Black Women”, in The Paper: Fordham University’s Student Journal of News, Analysis, Comment and Review, volume 43, number 6, Bronx, New York, N.Y.: Fordham University, →OCLC, page 9:

Drawing upon a history in which racism, heteropatriarchy, and inter-racial gender ideology rendered Black women invisible and marginalized, Pough compels Black feminists attempting to reject hip-hop feminism to revisit the historical record of Black women pushing back against Black male sexism and misogynoir in Black political, cultural, and social spaces.

2015 January, Treva B. Lindsey, “Let Me Blow Your Mind: Hip Hop Feminist Futures in Theory and Praxis”, in Urban Education, volume 50, number 1, Beverly Hills, Calif.: SAGE Journals, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-03-19, pages 57–58:

[A] Black woman as the arbiter of racialized sexism against a young Black girl is an example of misogynoir.

2016, Sonita R. Moss, “Beyoncé and Blue: Black Motherhood and the Binds of Racialized Sexism”, in Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, editor, The Beyoncé Effect: Essays on Sexuality, Race and Feminism, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 157:

To me, his words seemed a form of “misogynoir” – discrimination prejudice, and violence aimed specifically at women of colour.

2022 December 21, VV Brown, “The Sun will protect Jeremy Clarkson. Who will protect women who suffer violence every day?”, in The Guardian:

(neologism) Contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against black women.

misogynoir

contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against black women


女性主義

ㄋㄩˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄓㄨˇ ㄧˋ

/ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹ i⁵¹/

/nɵy̯¹³ sɪŋ³³ t͡syː³⁵ jiː²²/

/ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹ i⁵¹/

/nɵy̯¹³ sɪŋ³³ t͡syː³⁵ jiː²²/

feminism (the social theory or political movement)


feminerd

The rise of the Internet poured gasoline on the fire, creating spaces for feminerds to come out of the woodwork and share their passions.

2012, Rob Salkowitz, Comic-Con and the Business of Pop Culture: What the World’s Wildest Trade Show Can Tell Us About the Future of Entertainment, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 82:

This 'boys' club' attitude that girls can't be geeks is still a major stumbling block for feminerds and girls who want to break into geek culture.

2012, Jessica Bickford, "No girls allowed", The Carillion (University of Reginia), Volume 55, Issue 2, 2 August 2012 - 5 September 2012, page 14

Bored with assumptions that women and girls who participate in nerd culture are somehow faking it—or worse, that they are only doing it to appease their geeky boyfriends—feminerds are turning up the volume to air their grievances with widespread sexism in geek communities.

2014 October 21, Whitney Beyer, “Women fight to be nerd”, in Vanguard, volume 69, number 11, Portland State University, page 18:

(slang) A feminist nerd, especially a woman.


woman-born-woman

Coined by second-wave feminists to distinguish cisgender women from transgender women.

To the extent that she can pull it off, her gender is babe. But at Stayfree her babe outfit (long hair, big shirt, leggings, flats) makes her feel like an interloper—like some rude woman-born-woman intent on boycotting femininity because she can take it for granted.

(feminism) A cisgender woman; a cis woman.


fembitch

The whole notion of sexual harassment is a lie concocted by the fembitches.

1995 January 5, Gary Clark, “THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SEXUAL HARASSMENT”, in soc.men (Usenet):

Again, you're so busy assuming that I'm a woman, therefore I'm a selfish fembitch, that you didn't read my posts. I *do* support C4M. It's just that I support it in the direction of the default being no-paternity-option-to-assume-it, than being paternity-option-to-deny-it.

1997 May 19, Laurel Halbany, “Re: Incomprehension of Paternal Abandonment”, in or.politics (Usenet):

Nothing like the howling and gnashing of teeth heard from the fembitches in response to the accusations made against Clarence Thomas. The same goes for the Democrats.

2000 September 7, Tony Bounds, “Re: Al Gore, man of honor”, in soc.men (Usenet):


femmie

A new generation of fighting femmies has been raising the steaks (no spelling error here), to the point where men must now do their own barbequing!

2006, Victor Schlatter, Who Told You That You Were Naked?:


male-gazey

en-adj

male-gazey (comparative male-gazier, superlative male-gaziest)

male-gazier (comparative)
male-gaziest (superlative)

For most of the movie, I’m torn between wanting to make a list of every overtly male-gazey shot, wanting to leave the theater to go get chicken tenders and wanting to take body shots off of Vanessa Hudgens.

2013 March 28, “Baked, Buzzed, Bored: 'Spring Breakers'”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan:

I “liked” the U of C Compliments page on Facebook. While its content tends to lean towards male-gazey compliments about foxy women at the gym, I still think it’s kind of sweet that people take the time and effort to say something kind anonymously with no incentive.

2014 March 6, Athena G. Csuti, “U of C confessions too revealing”, in The Gauntlet, volume 54, number 32, University of Calgary, page 9:

[…] Fudakowski reserves his greatest enthusiasm for exoticising, male-gazey images of Zhu in the altogether, or wearing one of the captain's crisp white shirts just so off the shoulder.

2014 June 26, Mike McCahill, “Secret Sharer review – stormy-seas drama remains rather flat”, in The Guardian:

(informal) Presenting women in a way which implicitly assumes the viewer or reader is a heterosexual man.


transmisogynist

transmisogynist (comparative more transmisogynist, superlative most transmisogynist)

more transmisogynist (comparative)
most transmisogynist (superlative)

Ropchan's assessment of the situation displays transmisogynist bias in the intentional misuse of the pronoun 'he,' […]

2012 April 4, Jil Jorgensen, Alexa DeGagne, “University must do more for transgendered people”, in The Gateway, volume 102, number 28, University of Alberta, page 10:

Well, speaking for myself as a trans woman: Certainly it's hard to argue that it doesn't repeat and reinforce all sorts of tired transmisogynist tropes, or that the song doesn't have a nasty hetero-cis sneer underneath it.

2012, Rachel Zall, quoted in Andrew Hickey, Preservation: The Kinks' Music 1964-1974, Lulu.com (2012), page 137, published 2 September 2012

Transwomen grow up in an incredibly transmisogynist culture, where we receive relentlessly negative messages about our identities, […]

2013, Leela Ginelle, "Parker Marie Molloy Elaborates on 'Gay Dudes, Can You Just Not?'", PQ Monthly, Volume 2, Number 12, December 2013/January 2014, page 12

(feminism, LGBTQ, neologism) Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting transmisogyny.


transmisogynist

(feminism, LGBTQ, neologism) One who exhibits transmisogyny.


女性學

ㄋㄩˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄒㄩㄝˊ

/ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵¹ ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/

/nɵy̯¹³ sɪŋ³³ hɔːk̚²/

/ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵¹ ɕy̯ɛ³⁵/

/nɵy̯¹³ sɪŋ³³ hɔːk̚²/


女性研究

ㄋㄩˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄧㄢˊ ㄐㄧㄡ

ㄋㄩˇ ㄒㄧㄥˋ ㄧㄢˊ ㄐㄧㄡˋ

нюйсин яньцзю

/ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵¹ jɛn³⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/

/ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵¹ jɛn³⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/

/nɵy̯¹³ sɪŋ³³ jiːn²¹ kɐu̯³³/

/ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵¹ jɛn³⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/

/ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕiŋ⁵¹ jɛn³⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/

/nɵy̯¹³ sɪŋ³³ jiːn²¹ kɐu̯³³/


婦女研究

ㄈㄨˋ ㄋㄩˇ ㄧㄢˊ ㄐㄧㄡ

ㄈㄨˋ ㄋㄩˇ ㄧㄢˊ ㄐㄧㄡˋ

фунюй яньцзю

/fu⁵¹ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ jɛn³⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/

/fu⁵¹ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ jɛn³⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/

/fuː¹³ nɵy̯¹³ jiːn²¹ kɐu̯³³/

/fu⁵¹ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ jɛn³⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵⁵/

/fu⁵¹ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹ jɛn³⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯⁵¹/

/fuː¹³ nɵy̯¹³ jiːn²¹ kɐu̯³³/


androcêntrico

pt-adj

androcêntrico (feminine androcêntrica, masculine plural androcêntricos, feminine plural androcêntricas)

androcêntrica (feminine)
androcêntricos (masculine plural)
androcêntricas (feminine plural)

(feminism) androcentric (focused on males)


genderist

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The Feminist Movement, […] is split between two types of feminists: the equality feminists and the gender feminists. Those who demand equal rights, […] are the equality feminists, […] The others are the NOW type, […] the gender feminists, or genderists. This radical element attempts to remodel women into something other than what nature has determined women to be. […] The genderists address particular vitriol toward non-conforming women still "enslaved" to men, like those who get married and have babies, […] And for her apostasy, Sommers says, the genderists “wish to excommunicate me from my sex.” The genderists tend to position themselves among the far left politically, to reject all advances of women as inadequate, and to hate America.

2010, William Davis Eaton, Liberal Betrayal of America and the Tea Party Firestorm, ELDERBERRY PRESS, INC., →ISBN, page 47:

(uncommon, in right-wing usage, derogatory) One who believes in gender ideology or does not support traditional gender roles.


anarcha-feminism

(politics, feminism) A political and philosophical theory combining anarchism and feminism, which typically views the state as patriarchal and oppressive.


anarchist feminism

en-noun

anarchist feminism (usually uncountable, plural anarchist feminisms)


anti-homem

/ɐ̃ˌt͡ʃiˈõ.mẽj̃/

[ɐ̃ˌt͡ʃiˈõ.mẽɪ̯̃]

/ɐ̃ˌt͡ʃiˈõ.mẽj̃/

[ɐ̃ˌt͡ʃiˈõ.mẽɪ̯̃]

/ɐ̃ˌt͡ʃiˈo.mẽj̃/

[ɐ̃ˌt͡ʃiˈo.mẽɪ̯̃]


brass ceiling

brass (“indicating high-ranking officers”) + ceiling (“suggesting a barrier to upward advancement”)

2004, Dorothy Moses Schulz, Breaking the Brass Ceiling: Women Police Chiefs and Their Paths to the Top, Greenwood Publishing, →ISBN:

2007, Breaking Through the Brass Ceiling: Elite Military Women's Strategies for Success, ProQuest., →ISBN:

(idiomatic) An unwritten, uncodified barrier to promotion or progression for women in law enforcement or the military.


mansplainy

en-adj

mansplainy (comparative more mansplainy, superlative most mansplainy)

more mansplainy (comparative)
most mansplainy (superlative)

So, have pity on the mansplainer. His is the merely the voice of a patriarchal world eclipsed by a new one ... wait, did that sound mansplainy?

2014 July 26, Wallace Baine, “A man explains 'mansplaining'”, in Santa Cruz Sentinel:

[…] in Little Women everyone's favourite tomboy Jo March is eventually tamed into a 'good wife' by the paternally mansplainy Professor Bhaer […]

2015, Emily Berry, edited by Antonia Fraser, The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, pages 306–307:

The nods to how women react to men stripping ranges from the inexplicable […] to the utterly mansplainy, as in the scene in which two men discuss why (they imagine) women like male strippers.

2015, Maryann Johanson, "Spoiled Beefcake", The Riverfront Times, Volume 39, Number 27, 1 July 2015 - 7 July 2015, page 26

It feels churlish — and, to be honest, at least a bit mansplainy — even to introduce the slightest hint of cold water on the growth of women’s soccer. The infusion of money is welcome, no question. The involvement of men’s clubs is, probably, necessary to accelerate the game’s growth. What matters most of all, of course, is the health of the structure as a whole.

2021 February 26, Rory Smith, “Have You Seen This Man?”, in The New York Times:

(informal) Engaging in, featuring, or characteristic of mansplaining.


slut-shamey

slut-shamey (comparative more slut-shamey, superlative most slut-shamey)

more slut-shamey (comparative)
most slut-shamey (superlative)

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One of the biggest myths about dating is that how soon you choose to have sex impacts the longevity of the relationship. So if you are a woman and you're looking for love, giving it up too early will preclude any possibility of a long-term relationship. Outside of being blatantly slut-shamey, this advice is plain wrong.

2011, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life, Seal Press, →ISBN, pages 92–93:

We should all know by now that hooker jokes are way passé and slut-shaming is wrong, but when tempers flare, a slut-shamey slur can occasionally pop out of one's mouth.

2015, Siouxsie Q, "A Happier, Hotter Year: Seven Sexual Resolutions for 2015, SF Weekly, 7 January 2015

Not to sound slut-shamey or anything here, coming from someone who was also sexually active at around the same age, but if I was getting my swerve on with dudes in their 20s, I’m pretty sure I would remember that sh*t.

2015 July 31, Jerome Khalid, “Khloé Kardashian Defends Kylie Jenner & Tyga: “At 16 I Was Probably””, in Press Examiner:

(informal) Engaging in, promoting, or characteristic of slut-shaming.


Mako Mori test

Named after the character Mako Mori from the 2013 film Pacific Rim by a Tumblr user known as "Chaila", who thought that the older Bechdel test was sometimes insufficient for measuring the representation of women in films.

But what stood out most to me was how the film [Gravity] proves we need The Mako Mori Test.

2013, Ryan Syrek, "She Needed Her Space", The Reader, Volume 20, Number 35, 10 October 2013 - 16 October 2013, page 22

It [Run Lola Run] does pass the Mako Mori test though, because Lola is motivated by her boyfriend's safety, her actions do not always impact his story arc.

2015, Lani Gerbi, "The Bechdel Sword in the Stone", On Dit (Adelaide University), Volume 83, Issue 7, 15 July 2015, page 19

Below is just one take, and uses the established Bechdel and Mako Mori tests to assess whether a work is feminist/representative.

2015 August 17, Charlotte Hann, “Feminist Fandom”, in Salient, volume 78, number 19, Victoria University of Wellington, page 30:

(literature, critical theory) A feminist test for evaluating works of fiction by whether they have (i) at least one female character (ii) who has her own narrative arc (iii) which does not exist to support the narrative arc of a male character.


sheroic

sheroic (comparative more sheroic, superlative most sheroic)

more sheroic (comparative)
most sheroic (superlative)

The tragedy of Gatha's sheroic journey is that the actualization of her own importance is never considered "the prize" of her odyssey; hence, she never recognizes the personal and historic success of her journey.

1999, Janice Lee Liddell, “Voyages Beyond Lust and Lactation: The Climacteric as Seen in Novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall”, in Janice Liddell, Yakini Belinda Kemp, editors, Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature, University Press of Florida, →ISBN, page 36:

This sheroic choice eventually led her to testify compassionately on behalf of faceless and voiceless young girls still living under horrific conditions in the community she had escaped from.

2015, Nancy D. O'Reilly, Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 84:

However, in the same vein, she also bemoans that following each of these campaigns, amnesia sets in wherein society tends to conveniently forget about the sheroic lengths to which its women have uniformly performed and without whom the military's successes could not have been achieved.

2015, G. L. A. Harris, Living Legends and Full Agency: Implications of Repealing the Combat Exclusion Policy, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 37:

(feminism) Heroic in a female or feminist context.


Duluth model

Developed in the city of Duluth, Minnesota.

A program designed to reduce domestic violence against women, based on feminist theory positing that such violence is the result of patriarchal ideology.


metapatriarchal

metapatriarchal (comparative more metapatriarchal, superlative most metapatriarchal)

more metapatriarchal (comparative)
most metapatriarchal (superlative)

From meta- + patriarchal, coined by Mary Daly (1928–2010), playing on multiple senses of meta-.

(feminism) Relating to transcendence over the patriarchy.


jagabat

(Trinidad and Tobago) A sexually promiscuous woman.


fuathaitheoir ban

head

fuathaitheoir ban m (genitive singular fuathaitheora bhan, nominative plural fuathaitheoirí ban)

fuathaitheora bhan (genitive singular)
fuathaitheoirí ban (nominative plural)
fuathaitheoir ban
fhuathaitheoir ban
bhfuathaitheoir ban


feminasty

As I walked out of the court I recollected having read somewhere that the Honourable Sally Boucaut was the President of this group of legal feminasties.

1997, Gerald Paul James McGinley, True Counsel, page 17:


феминист

mk-noun

феминистички

феминист • (feminist) m (feminine феминистка, relational adjective феминистички)

feminist (romanization)
феминистка (feminine)
феминистички (adjective relational)
феминист (indefinite singular)
феминисти (indefinite plural)
феминистот (definite singular unspecified)
феминистите (definite plural unspecified)
феминистов (definite proximal singular)
феминистиве (definite plural proximal)
феминистон (definite distal singular)
феминистине (definite distal plural)
феминисту (singular vocative)
феминисти (plural vocative)
феминиста (count-form plural)


femaleist

From female + -ist coined in 1999 by Barbara Ehrenreich.

The femaleist premise could be summarized as: Yes, we are different—wanna make something of it?

1999 March 1, Barbara Ehrenreich, “The Real Truth About The Female Body”, in Time:

“What my book does, I think, is say, Let’s look at ourselves and not feel defensive,”’ says Mill Valley writer Dianne Hale, author of “Just Like a Woman: How Gender Science Is Redefining What Makes Us Female” (Bantam), published last month. Hale and the authors of the two similar books have been described as “femaleists” rather than feminists.

1999 April 4, Joan Ryan, “Men, Women, Apples and Oranges”, in The San Francisco Chronicle:

The ad industry portrayed the role reversal that feminists have coveted for the past twenty years . . . the femaleist party line that women are more "manly" than men could ever hope to be!

2000, Diane Passno, Feminism: Mystique Or Mistake?, →ISBN:

Even in her critique of evolutionary psychology — a book heralded by Barbara Ehrenreich as the "chief manifesto of the new 'femaleist' thinking" — Natalie Angier expresses just this sort of impatience with perspectives from the usual critics of bioreductivism (feminists, progressives, and perhaps especially social scientists).

2003, Roger N. Lancaster, The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture, →ISBN:

I am a “femaleist.”I think that beer, when at its best, empowers women.

2006, Christopher Mark O'Brien, Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World, →ISBN:

One who acknowledges and celebrates the ways in which women are different from men (in addition to the obvious difference in reproductive organs).


Mulveyan

en-adj

Mulveyan (comparative more Mulveyan, superlative most Mulveyan)

more Mulveyan (comparative)
most Mulveyan (superlative)

Of or relating to Laura Mulvey (born 1941), British feminist film theorist.


wommonhood

From wommon + -hood, modelled on womanhood.

(feminism, rare) Nonstandard spelling of womanhood.


womynkind

(rare, nonstandard) Feminist spelling of womankind


womonkind

From womon + -kind, modelled on womankind.


femocracy

en-noun

femocracy (countable and uncountable, plural femocracies)

Yet the critics of Hillary and the femocracy cannot let it lie.

2009 August 16, “Hot topic one issue, seven views”, in Toronto Star:

(derogatory) A feminist clique that focuses on its own interests rather than those of women in general.


sadospiritual

en-adj

sadospiritual (comparative more sadospiritual, superlative most sadospiritual)

more sadospiritual (comparative)
most sadospiritual (superlative)

From sadistic and spiritual; coined by feminist Mary Daly.

(derogatory) Of or relating to forms of religion with sadistic aspects.


pink tax

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(informal, feminism) The relative increase in price paid for women's consumer items compared to similar products marketed to men.


बंदी

hi-noun

बंदी • (bandī) f (masculine बंदा, Urdu spelling بندی)

bandī (romanization)
बंदा (masculine)
بندی (Urdu)
बंदी (direct singular)
बंदियाँ (direct plural)
बंदी (oblique singular)
बंदियों (oblique plural)
बंदी (singular vocative)
बंदियो (plural vocative)

Etymology tree
Hindi बंदा (bandā)
Apabhramsa -इअ (-ia)
Hindi -ई (-ī)
Hindi बंदी (bandī)
बंदा (bandā) + -ई (-ī, feminine suffix).

etymon

यह बंदी

(archaic) a female servant, slave; sometimes used to refer to oneself humbly


बंदी

bandī (romanization)
بندی (Urdu)
बंदी (direct singular)
बंदी (direct plural)
बंदी (oblique singular)
बंदियों (oblique plural)
बंदी (singular vocative)
बंदियो (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Sanskrit बन्दिन् (bandin), वन्दिन् (vandin, “praiser, bard”), from the root वन्द् (vand).


ਜ਼ਨਾਨੀ

pa-noun

ਜ਼ਨਾਨੀ • (zanānī) f (Shahmukhi spelling زَنانِی)

zanānī (romanization)
زَنانِی (Shahmukhi)
ਜ਼ਨਾਨੀ (direct singular)
ਜ਼ਨਾਨੀਆਂ (direct plural)
ਜ਼ਨਾਨੀ (oblique singular)
ਜ਼ਨਾਨੀਆਂ (oblique plural)
ਜ਼ਨਾਨੀਏ (singular vocative)
ਜ਼ਨਾਨੀਓ (plural vocative)

PIE word
 *gʷḗn
Borrowed from Classical Persian زنانى (zanānī), from زنان (zanān, “women”) + ی (-ī). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (whence Classical Sanskrit जानि (jāni)).


magical feminism

First used in 1987 by Patricia Hart to describe the works of Isabel Allende.


misogynize

en-verb

misogynize (third-person singular simple present misogynizes, present participle misogynizing, simple past and past participle misogynized)

misogynizes (present singular third-person)
misogynizing (participle present)
misogynized (participle past)
misogynized (past)

Professor Weems can be placed within all of the approaches, as her work not only looks at the reclaiming of the black women from within the texts in a liberative form, but also rejects those scriptures that dehumanize and misogynize women.

2000, Joe Aldred, Sisters With Power, page 119:

If you fail me I shall misanthropize, misogynize, misobrephize, shut myself up in a cell(ar).

2012, Fiona MacCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite:

(transitive, rare) To treat in a misogynistic manner.


פֿעמיניזם

feminism (the social theory or political movement)


matrophobia

Coined by the poet Lynn Sukenick; equivalent to matri- + -phobia.

(feminism) The fear of becoming like one's mother.


仇女

/ʈ͡ʂʰoʊ̯³⁵ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ʈ͡ʂʰoʊ̯³⁵ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

A netizen asked on PTT: "If it goes on like this, "Taiwanese girls" will really be a derogatory word; isn't the trend of "women-hating" over the top?"

Yǒu wǎngyǒu jiù zài PPT (PTT) fāwèn: zài zhèyàng xiàqù, táiwān de nǚhái jiǎnzhí chéngle biǎnyìcí, zhè zhǒng “chóunǚ” fēngqì shìbùshì tài kuāzhāng le?

有網友就在PPT(PTT)發問：再這樣下去，台灣的女孩簡直成了貶意詞，這種「仇女」風氣是不是太誇張了？

有网友就在PPT(PTT)发问：再这样下去，台湾的女孩简直成了贬意词，这种「仇女」风气是不是太夸张了？

(Internet slang) misogyny, hatred of woman


femicommie

(derogatory, rare) A feminist with left-wing leanings.


Wollstonecraftian

en-adj

Wollstonecraftian (comparative more Wollstonecraftian, superlative most Wollstonecraftian)

more Wollstonecraftian (comparative)
most Wollstonecraftian (superlative)

Of or relating to Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.


Nussbaumian

Nussbaumian (comparative more Nussbaumian, superlative most Nussbaumian)

more Nussbaumian (comparative)
most Nussbaumian (superlative)

Of or relating to Martha Nussbaum (born 1947), American philosopher and feminist.


radical feminism

en-noun

radical feminism (countable and uncountable, plural radical feminisms)

The conference had been convened by a group that wanted to defend two positions that have made radical feminism anathema to much of the left. First, the organizers hoped to refute charges that the desire to ban prostitution implies hostility toward prostitutes.

2014 August 4, Michelle Goldberg, “What Is A Woman? The Dispute between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism”, in The New Yorker:

(politics, feminism) A type of feminism which calls for a radical reordering of society to eliminate male supremacy in all social and economic contexts.


bra-burning

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anarchist feminist

anarchist feminist (plural anarchist feminists)


anarcha-feministic

en-adj

anarcha-feministic (comparative more anarcha-feministic, superlative most anarcha-feministic)

more anarcha-feministic (comparative)
most anarcha-feministic (superlative)

Of or relating to anarcha-feminism or feminist anarchy.


womyn's land

Womyn's lands were typically larger and more open than earlier urban communes: some women lived on the land long-term, but many welcomed others to visit for shorter periods; some urban communities also had ongoing connections with rural communities.

2021, Stephen Vider, The Queerness of Home, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 86:

A feminist commune inhabited only by women.


amlóg

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amlóg f (genitive singular amlóige, nominative plural amlóga)

amlóige (genitive singular)
amlóga (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
amlóg (indefinite singular)
amlóga (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a amlóg (indefinite singular)
a amlóga (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
amlóige (indefinite singular)
amlóg (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an amlóg (definite singular)
na hamlóga (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na hamlóige (definite singular)
na n-amlóg (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an amlóg (definite singular)
don amlóg (definite singular)
leis na hamlóga (definite plural)
amlóg
n-amlóg
hamlóg


Dworkinism

Seeing Dworkinism flare up in the gay community just brings bad memories of '70s feminism […]

1997, Charles Lyons, The New Censors: Movies and the Culture Wars, page 125:

But fighting Dworkinism and other forms of sexual conservative politics with a sex-positive agenda can also reproduce the racism inherent in the mainstream gay movement.

2004, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, page 26:


gender ideology

en-noun

gender ideology (countable and uncountable, plural gender ideologies)

Although it appears to pursue the good end of honouring all people, it also assumes the whole linguistic fabric of gender ideology, which aims to eliminate the concepts of male and female, dismantle corporal identity and deconstruct the human body, marriage and family.

2018 January 24, Jonathan Luxmoore, “Catholic bishops denounce LGBT diversity law”, in The Tablet:

"We are against gender ideology," Zeljka Markic, a leader of the conservatives, told The Associated Press.

2018 March 24, “Thousands of Croatian Far-Right Supporters March in Zagreb”, in Voice of America:

Some say that the latest instruction represents the promotion of the so-called gender ideology, but the Ministry denies this, reports Večernji List

2018 June 14, Vedran Pavlic, “Transgender People Have a Right to Be Issued New Diplomas”, in Total Croatia News:

Brazil’s Bolsonaro has denounced the presence of “Marxist rubbish,” political debate, and “gender ideology” on Brazil’s school campuses. Militants opposing so-called gender ideology throughout Latin America erroneously argue that teaching sexual education attracts young people toward homosexuality, feminizes boys, and masculinizes girls.

2019 March 7, Natalia Cote-Muñoz, “Murdered Women Can’t Celebrate International Women’s Day”, in Foreign Policy:

Gender ideology is the theory that […] human individuals are properly described in terms of an “internal sense of gender” called “gender identity” that may be incongruent with their “sex assigned at birth.”

2023 July 3, Jay W. Richards, “What Is Gender Ideology?”, in The American Conservative:

One Catholic family in Indiana has suffered the unthinkable: the parents’ son was taken from their home because his parents refused to genuflect to the demands of gender ideology.

2024 February 21, Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer, “When Gender Ideology Infects the Family”, in National Christian Register:

(uncountable, derogatory) The belief that gender is an innate identity which is separate from sex at birth.


effeminist

The effeminists have reported that the Effeminist Manifesto, the second piece in this section, "condensed itself in our minds as the best expression of our own committed politics."

1977, Jon Snodgrass, For men against sexism: a book of readings, page 112:

(historical) A member of a male homosexual movement opposing prejudices against effeminate behaviour.


third-wave feminist

third-wave feminist (plural third-wave feminists)


玻璃天花板

ㄅㄛ ˙ㄌㄧ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄏㄨㄚ ㄅㄢˇ

боли тяньхуабань

/pu̯ɔ⁵⁵ li² tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ xu̯ä⁵⁵ pän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/


political lesbianism

A feminist doctrine that advocates lesbianism and lesbian separatism as a part of the struggle against sexism.


political lesbian

political lesbian (plural political lesbians)

political lesbianism
political lesbianism

A proponent or practitioner of political lesbianism.


autogynephile

/ˌɔː.təʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfaɪl/

Evidently, the woman did not get those signals from the men. (If instead of being the wife of an autogynephile, she were the sister of a homosexual transsexual, I doubt she would have asked an analogous question.)

2003, J. Michael Bailey, The Man Who Would Be Queen:

Transsexual and Nontranssexual Autogynephiles Resemble Each Other. […] I knew, however, that attempting to draw a definitive line between autogynephilic transsexuals and nontranssexual autogynephiles was a difficult if not an impossible exercise, even though I believed there were legitimate reasons for trying to do so.

2012, Anne A. Lawrence, Men Trapped in Men's Bodies: Narratives of Autogynephilic Transsexualism, page 179:

First identified in the early 1990s by Canadian sex researcher Ray Blanchard, autogynephiles usually grow up with masculine boyhood interests, eventually finding themselves fetishistically sexually interested in female clothes and female bodies.

2012, Gary F. Kelly, America's Sexual Transformation:


misoxinia

From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunía).


Cinderella complex

Cinderella complex (plural Cinderella complexes)

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From the title of a 1981 book by Colette Dowling, The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence; named after the girl from the fairy-tale Cinderella, who is rescued from her life of poverty and mistreatment by a prince.

The situation where a woman has an unconscious desire to be taken care of by others, and thus requires help from some outside force, usually a man.


women are wonderful effect

the women are wonderful effect (canonical)

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(psychology, sociology) The phenomenon in psychological and sociological research that people seem to associate more positive attributes with women in general than with men in general, reflecting an emotional bias.


sororidad

From Renaissance Late Latin sorōritātem, from Latin soror (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. Akin to Portuguese sororidade, French sororité, English sorority.

(feminism) sisterhood (the idea of universal experience amongst women, regardless of other traits or factors)


cumhal

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cumhal f (genitive singular cumhaile, nominative plural cumhala)

cumhaile (genitive singular)
cumhala (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
cumhal (indefinite singular)
cumhala (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a chumhal (indefinite singular)
a chumhala (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
cumhaile (indefinite singular)
cumhal (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
cumhail (archaic dialectal indefinite singular)
nominative (definite)
an chumhal (definite singular)
na cumhala (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
na cumhaile (definite singular)
na gcumhal (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an gcumhal (definite singular)
leis an gcumhail (archaic definite dialectal singular)
don chumhal (definite singular)
don chumhail (archaic definite dialectal singular)
leis na cumhala (definite plural)
cumhal
chumhal
gcumhal

For yet higher sums the cumhal (pron. cūwal, the u being nasalised) or bondsmaid was the unit, and here again we meet with a considerable range of values. The normal value of the cumhal... seems to have been 10 sets, the set being further defined as of the second class... But in some passages we read of a cumhal worth 3 sets, and even only one; so that there is a wide range of uncertainty as to valuation in the absence of knowledge that was imparted traditionally.

1922, R. A. Stewart Macalister, “The Valuation and Tenure of Property”, in Ireland (quotation in English and Irish; overall work in English), page 102:

The measures by which the actual quantities in each case were ascertained were the cumhal (pronounced cooal) and the sed (pronounced shed)... Cumhal means, literally, a bond-maid or female slave; but in the laws it is never used in any other sense than as a measure of quantity, or rather of value, perhaps what was originally supposed to equal the value of such a slave. As applied to land (tircumhat), it meant the usufruct for one year of about twenty acres, less or more, according as the land was good or bad... As applied to things other than land, cumhal meant the value of three cows.

2013, Laurence Ginnell, The Brehon Laws: A Legal Handbook (quotation in English and Irish; overall work in English), page 80:

a unit of account equivalent to the theoretical value of a bondmaid


double day

The extended working day of a person who has to fulfil the duties of paid employment and then care for a family at home.


double burden

The extended workload of a person who works double days.


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Zephyrette

From zephyr (“light wind from the west”) + -ette (suffix forming nouns meaning the female equivalent of something). Zephyr is derived from Latin zephyrus, Zephyrus (“personification of the west wind”), from Ancient Greek Ζέφῠρος (Zéphŭros, “personification of the west wind”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃yebʰ- (“to enter, penetrate; to copulate”). Sense 1 (“on-board hostess”) is derived from the California Zephyr train.

der

The Zephyrette then takes the reservations of the Pullman passengers.

1952, David L. Paden, Problems and Economics of Dining Car Service (unpublished M.B.A. dissertation), Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University, →OCLC, page 163:

A good part of the train's personality lay in the Zephyrette, an on-board factotum who, like an airline stewardess, was a mix of hostess, paramedic, tour guide, secretary, nanny, security guard, purser, public relations agent and ombudswoman.

1995, Henry Kisor, Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America, New York, N.Y.: Times Books/Random House, →ISBN; republished Holbrook, Mass.: Adams Publishing Group, 1995, →ISBN, page 18:

Zephyrettes were a fixture on the CZ right to the last day of service on March 22, 1970.

1997, Mike Schafer, Joe Welsh, “Triumvirate Triumph: The California Zephyr”, in Classic American Streamliners, Oscola, Wis.: MBI Publishing Company, →ISBN, image caption, page 68:

"Zephyr and Ezekiel, huh?" Tommy had the courage to ask, shaking their hands. The two wooly-headed, intellectual-looking twins laughed. "Well, our dad's name was Zechariah and our mom worked as a Zephyrette on the California Zephyr passenger train," Ezekiel explained. "So I guess you could say they liked the letter z."

2009 October 6, Sean Phelan, Coming of Age, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 246:

(historical) An on-board hostess on the California Zephyr train, which originally operated between 1949 and 1970.

I'm going to select one of those beautiful fast-color Zephyrette patterns for my 'prize' dress.

1908 June, “The Prize Dress [advertisement]”, in James M. Irvine, editor, The Fruit-grower: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine for Progressive American Farmers, volume 19, number 6, St. Joseph, Mo.: The Fruit-grower, →OCLC, page 22 (yearly page 266), column 2:

McCutcheon's Stocks of Ginghams, Linens, Shirtings, Novelty Voiles, Zephyrette, Japanese Crepes, and White materials are always abundant and varied.

1921 February 5, “McCutcheon’s Smart New Fabrics for Spring and Summer Frocks [advertisement]”, in Hamilton Holt, editor, The Independent, volume 105, number 3757, New York, N.Y.: Independent Corporation, […], →OCLC, page 147:

United States Rubber Co. has introduced a lightweight plastic Zephyrette raincoat for women, girls and children.

1953, “Plastic Raincoat”, in Industrial Sports, volume 14, Chicago, Ill.: Allegheny Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 6, column 2:

A lightweight print fabric used for women's dresses.


SWERF

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Acronym of sex worker-exclusionary radical feminist, on the model of TERF.

acronym

Conversely, many intersectional feminists see TERFs or sex worker exclusionary radical feminists (SWERFs) as bigots and bullies.

2016, Giuliana Monteverde, “Navigating Complicity in Contemporary Feminist Discourse”, in Afxentis Afxentiou, Michael Neu, Robin Dunford, editors, Exploring Complicity: Concept, Cases and Critique, page 108:

SWERFs (sex worker exclusionary radical feminists), they also dubbed us TERFs (transgender exclusionary radical feminists) because, as one protester shouted, 'Trans women sex workers of colour are dying thanks to SWERFs!'

2021, Julie Bindel, Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation, unnumbered page:

When national mainstream media outlets bought into the myth that lap-dancing clubs caused sexual violence in Camden, SWERFs gained huge ground in terms of public opinion about sex work, and with that came significant power.

2022, Stacey Clare, The Ethical Stripper: Sex, Work and Labour Rights in the Night-Time Economy, unnumbered page:

(see usage notes) A sex worker-exclusionary radical feminist; a feminist who opposes the sex industry, particularly the production and distribution of pornography, typically viewing it as coercive or abusive of the women involved.


Mizoran

en-adj

Mizoran (comparative more Mizoran, superlative most Mizoran)

more Mizoran (comparative)
most Mizoran (superlative)

Of or relating to Mizora (1880–81), a feminist utopian novel by Mary E. Bradley Lane, or the society it depicts.


anti-antifeminist

anti-antifeminist (comparative more anti-antifeminist, superlative most anti-antifeminist)

more anti-antifeminist (comparative)
most anti-antifeminist (superlative)


purplewashing

From purple + -wash + -ing. The colour purple is often associated with feminism.

Epilogue: from Islamophobia to purplewashing.

2015, Belén Fernández Suárez, “The construction of a victimized alterity in political and media discourses via the burka ban debate.”, in Revista Internacional de Comunicación y Desarrollo, volume 3:

One of the most common tools of promoting militarism in Western societies is the use of women as a flag. The so-called purplewashing or purple lavage, is to provide a veneer of liberal-colonial feminism in military interventions to legitimize them as actions of almost moral and ethical obligation. Purplewashing, currently closely linked to Islamophobia, is used to reinforce Western moral superiority, making invisible the struggles of those who do not conform to the colonial pattern, making the peoples essential, and ultimately legitimizing any kind of economic or military intervention towards the rest of the world.

2016 November, Nora Miralles Crespo, “Gender and military culture. Lives, bodies and social control under war.”, in Centre Delàs d’Estudis per la Pau:

View all notes has inspired conceptual tools such as whitewashing, purplewashing and greenwashing, among others.

2017, Melania Moscoso, R. Lucas Platero, “Cripwashing: the abortion debates at the crossroads of gender and disability in the Spanish media”, in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 31, number 3:

The practice of presenting something as feminist, particularly a political action, in order to soften or downplay aspects of its reputation considered negative or as a justification for economic, political, xenophobic or racist goals.


ecofeministic

ecofeministic (comparative more ecofeministic, superlative most ecofeministic)

more ecofeministic (comparative)
most ecofeministic (superlative)


WOC

the contributions of WOC to the development of rock and roll

Initialism of woman of color or women of color.


Dworkinite

A supporter of Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005), American radical feminist and writer best known for her criticism of pornography.


feminist dance therapy

Colorado, of course, means "red" in Spanish, not "overpriced ski resorts and dingbats who live in Boulder and teach feminist dance therapy."

2007, P. J. O'Rourke, Give War a Chance, page 53:

To […] tap into what your authentic expression is […] you must have the courage to confront your fears and any inauthentic structures you have created, including being a feminist dance therapy major at Oberlin College.

underwater basket weaving
underwater basket weaving#English

(rare, informal, derogatory) Synonym of underwater basket weaving (“useless academic course or major”)


pornotroping

Coined by Hortense J. Spillers in her 1987 essay “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book”; porno- + trope + -ing.

(feminism) The process of reducing a person or group of people to mere flesh, stripped of personhood and made into the object of violent and sexual impulses.


like mother, like daughter

(idiomatic) A daughter takes after her mother.

anyja lánya

stating the similarity of a daughter to her mother

the apple does not fall far from the tree


jineology

Anglicized from Northern Kurdish jineolojî, from jin (“woman”).

(feminism, politics) A school of feminist thought espoused by various leftist groups in Kurdistan.


wombyn

Form "My journey as a wombyn child emerging from a wombyn, my mother, and my own growth thru all the passages and consecutive emergences to the present is both similar to the experiences of generations of wombyn gone before me and uniquely my own.

1983, Lynda Ross Ford, Bleeding, page 147:

I come from a generation of wombyn that struggled and strived alone.

2014, Diata, Wombanystic Thoughts, →ISBN, page 108:

These spritely guides are merely an inspiration for you to begin or deepen your journey depending on where you are in your development. I invite you to take time to see what your personal guidance says about your wombyn's rhythms.

2016, Zsuzsi Hussla, Unraveling Her, →ISBN:


minoress

The chronicler Charles Wriothesley is the sole authority for the marriage of one Mistress Bures, a minoress of some 16 years standing, to the quondam abbot of Walden, Essex in 1538.

1992, Catherine Paxton, The Nunneries of London and Its Environs in the Later Middle Ages, page 302:

(Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minoress: a Poor Clare.


intersectionaliteit

nl-noun

intersectionaliteit f (plural intersectionaliteiten)

From intersectioneel (“intersectional”) + -iteit, calque of English intersectionality.


kruispuntdenken

From kruispunt (“intersection”) + denken (“thinking”), loosely modelled on English intersectionality, intersectionalism.


verkrachtingscultuur

nl-noun

verkrachtingscultuur f (plural verkrachtingsculturen)

Compound of verkrachting (“rape”) + -s- + cultuur (“culture, cultivation”), calque of English rape culture.


vrouwenemancipatie

nl-noun

vrouwenemancipatie f (plural vrouwenemancipaties)


wimin

(feminism) Alternative spelling of women


womin

LF 36, Pisces, would like to meet a special womin with Holistic inter arts affection.

1986 April 19, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 13:

(feminism) Alternative spelling of woman