"pop feminism" meaning in English

See pop feminism in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} pop feminism (uncountable)
  1. (sometimes derogatory) A populist, non-academic approach to feminism, suggesting that women can attain equality with men through a positive, go-getting attitude, without much need to organize politically or to examine or change cultural institutions and biases. Tags: derogatory, sometimes, uncountable Categories (topical): Feminism Related terms: girl power
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "pop feminism (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ism",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Feminism",
          "orig": "en:Feminism",
          "parents": [
            "Female",
            "Gender",
            "Ideologies",
            "Society",
            "Sociology",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Politics",
            "All topics",
            "Social sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Zillah R. Eisenstein, Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century:",
          "text": "So pop feminism distorts feminism by depoliticizing it and burying its complexities, and in so diminished a state it has no power to vanquish the male privilege that women experience in their everyday lives.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Barbara Klinger, Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home:",
          "text": "Cinematherapy combines a strategic mix of pop feminism (which presumes female independence and “girl power”) and stereotypes, then, as a primary method of appealing to female audiences.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Su Holmes, Diane Negra, In the Limelight and Under the Microscope:",
          "text": "[…] strongly associated with a 1990s/early 2000s cultural moment of “pop-feminism,” marked by a high-profile, culturally pervasive, quasi-feminist rhetoric. This rhetoric relied heavily on female celebrities who embraced the “bad girl” stereotype […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A populist, non-academic approach to feminism, suggesting that women can attain equality with men through a positive, go-getting attitude, without much need to organize politically or to examine or change cultural institutions and biases."
      ],
      "id": "en-pop_feminism-en-noun-JevUtrhs",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "populist",
          "populist"
        ],
        [
          "academic",
          "academic"
        ],
        [
          "feminism",
          "feminism"
        ],
        [
          "equality",
          "equality"
        ],
        [
          "positive",
          "positive"
        ],
        [
          "go-getting",
          "go-getting"
        ],
        [
          "attitude",
          "attitude"
        ],
        [
          "political",
          "political"
        ],
        [
          "cultural",
          "cultural"
        ],
        [
          "institution",
          "institution"
        ],
        [
          "bias",
          "bias"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sometimes derogatory) A populist, non-academic approach to feminism, suggesting that women can attain equality with men through a positive, go-getting attitude, without much need to organize politically or to examine or change cultural institutions and biases."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "girl power"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "sometimes",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pop feminism"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "pop feminism (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "girl power"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ism",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Feminism"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Zillah R. Eisenstein, Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century:",
          "text": "So pop feminism distorts feminism by depoliticizing it and burying its complexities, and in so diminished a state it has no power to vanquish the male privilege that women experience in their everyday lives.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Barbara Klinger, Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home:",
          "text": "Cinematherapy combines a strategic mix of pop feminism (which presumes female independence and “girl power”) and stereotypes, then, as a primary method of appealing to female audiences.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Su Holmes, Diane Negra, In the Limelight and Under the Microscope:",
          "text": "[…] strongly associated with a 1990s/early 2000s cultural moment of “pop-feminism,” marked by a high-profile, culturally pervasive, quasi-feminist rhetoric. This rhetoric relied heavily on female celebrities who embraced the “bad girl” stereotype […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A populist, non-academic approach to feminism, suggesting that women can attain equality with men through a positive, go-getting attitude, without much need to organize politically or to examine or change cultural institutions and biases."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "populist",
          "populist"
        ],
        [
          "academic",
          "academic"
        ],
        [
          "feminism",
          "feminism"
        ],
        [
          "equality",
          "equality"
        ],
        [
          "positive",
          "positive"
        ],
        [
          "go-getting",
          "go-getting"
        ],
        [
          "attitude",
          "attitude"
        ],
        [
          "political",
          "political"
        ],
        [
          "cultural",
          "cultural"
        ],
        [
          "institution",
          "institution"
        ],
        [
          "bias",
          "bias"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sometimes derogatory) A populist, non-academic approach to feminism, suggesting that women can attain equality with men through a positive, go-getting attitude, without much need to organize politically or to examine or change cultural institutions and biases."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "sometimes",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pop feminism"
}

Download raw JSONL data for pop feminism meaning in English (2.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.