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feminism en · NOUN

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/ˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)m/ (UK)

Etymology

From French féminisme circa 1837, ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). In the original sense of “women's movement or advocacy”, the French word was probably directly derived from fēmina, as if from Neo-Latin feminismus. First recorded in English in 1851, originally meaning “the state of being feminine”. Sense of “advocacy of women's rights” is from 1895.

Meanings

(countable, uncountable) A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
- There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). Alongside and often overlapping with older-identified distinctions between liberal, socialist, radical and cultural feminisms, for example (important as they are in their different accounts of sexual difference and gender power), are variously named black, third-world ethnic-minority feminisms, themselves far from homogenous. 1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, page ix-x:
- Women are still forbidden to smoke there... Ardent though we are in feminism, we applaud this stand... 1926 November 27, “The Talk of the Town”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, page 17:
- Ooh! “Even the ladies!” #feminism #confedera-she ! 2017, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
(countable, obsolete, uncountable) The state of being feminine; femininity.
- His hair is delicate and silky, and of a light chesnut[sic]—one of M. Lorrain's signs of feminism. 1875 July 24, The Medical Times and Gazette, volume II, page 105:

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uk феміні́зм (the social theory or political movement) · ur نِسوانِیَّت کی تَحرِیک (the social theory or political movement) · ur نِسوانِیَّت (the social theory or political movement) · tk feminizm (the social theory or political movement) · hi स्त्रीवाद (the social theory or political movement) · pl feminizm (the social theory or political movement) · ur تَحرِیک نِسوانِیَّت (the social theory or political movement) · kw benolegerieth (the social theory or political movement) · my အမျိုးသမီးဝါဒ (the social theory or political movement) · gd boireann-dhligheachas (the social theory or political movement) · km ស្ត្រីនិយម (the social theory or political movement) · br benelouriezh (the social theory or political movement) · be феміні́зм (the social theory or political movement) · ar فِيمِينِيزْم (the social theory or political movement) · sl feminizem (the social theory or political movement) · oc feminisme (the social theory or political movement) · ms faham feminis (the social theory or political movement) · cy ffeministiaeth (the social theory or political movement) · ug فېمىنىزم (the social theory or political movement) · ur نسانیت (the social theory or political movement) · sh feminìzam (the social theory or political movement) · cmn 女性主義 /女性主义 (the social theory or political movement) · nn feminisme (the social theory or political movement) · af feminisme (the social theory or political movement) · eo feminismo (the social theory or political movement) · nb kvinnesak (the social theory or political movement) · io feminismo (the social theory or political movement) · ms faham kewanitaan (the social theory or political movement) · be фэміні́зм (the social theory or political movement) · ja 女権拡張論 (the social theory or political movement) · ast feminismu (the social theory or political movement) · sw ufeministi (the social theory or political movement) · da feminisme (the social theory or political movement) · hu feminizmus (the social theory or political movement) · yo ìṣègbèfábo (the social theory or political movement) · cmn 女權主義 /女权主义 (the social theory or political movement) · es feminismo (the social theory or political movement) · yi פֿעמיניזם (the social theory or political movement) · tr feminizm (the social theory or political movement) · sv feminism (the social theory or political movement) · de Feminismus (the social theory or political movement) · cs feminismus (the social theory or political movement) · ky феминизм (the social theory or political movement) · vi chủ nghĩa nữ quyền (the social theory or political movement) · ca feminisme (the social theory or political movement) · ta பெண்ணியம் (the social theory or political movement) · id feminisme (the social theory or political movement) · he פמיניזם \ פֶמִינִיזְם (the social theory or political movement) · bn নারীবাদ (the social theory or political movement) · hi नारीवाद (the social theory or political movement) · mn ᠹᠧᠮᠢᠨᠢᠰᠮ (the social theory or political movement) · is femínismi (the social theory or political movement) · sh феминѝзам (the social theory or political movement) · te స్త్రీవాదం (the social theory or political movement) · az feminizm (the social theory or political movement) · lt feminizmas (the social theory or political movement) · ru фемини́зм (the social theory or political movement) · nl feminisme (the social theory or political movement) · la feminismus (the social theory or political movement) · ar نِسْوِيَّة (the social theory or political movement) · ko 페미니즘 (the social theory or political movement) · tg феминизм (the social theory or political movement) · fa فمینیسم (the social theory or political movement) · nb feminisme (the social theory or political movement) · hi महिलावाद (the social theory or political movement) · bg фемини́зъм (the social theory or political movement) · ms feminisme (the social theory or political movement) · ka ფემინიზმი (the social theory or political movement) · pt feminismo (the social theory or political movement) · fr féminisme (the social theory or political movement) · uz feminizm (the social theory or political movement) · ro feminism (the social theory or political movement) · gv feminaght (the social theory or political movement) · et feminism (the social theory or political movement) · kk феминизм (the social theory or political movement) · ar حَرَكَة حُقُوق الْمَرْأَة (the social theory or political movement) · ar أُنْثَوِيَّة (the social theory or political movement) · mk фемини́зам (the social theory or political movement) · fi feminismi (the social theory or political movement) · th สตรีนิยม (the social theory or political movement) · ko 여성주의 (the social theory or political movement) · hy ֆեմինիզմ (the social theory or political movement) · el φεμινισμός (the social theory or political movement) · ja フェミニズム (the social theory or political movement) · it femminismo (the social theory or political movement) · ga feimineachas (the social theory or political movement) · gl feminismo (the social theory or political movement) · cmn 女權擴張論 /女权扩张论 (the social theory or political movement) · sq feminizëm (the social theory or political movement) · lv feminisms (the social theory or political movement) · sk feminizmus (the social theory or political movement) · mn феминизм (the social theory or political movement)

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