ladettism en · NOUN
Etymology
From ladette + -ism.
Meanings
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(rare, uncountable) Ladettish behaviour; the condition or characteristics of a ladette.
A friend of mine — we'll call her Bridget — lived the other ‘90s Third Wave feminist cliché: ‘ladettism’. A wholly British phenomenon, ladettism had unlikely roots in a macho, working-class subculture.
2020 March, Sally Howard, The Home Stretch: Why the Gender Revolution Stalled at the Kitchen Sink, Atlantic Books, page 53:Subtly but significantly different from ladettism, whose template was a doeeyed and football-shirted take on the gamine rather than the glamour girl’s campy excess and abundance, Kenickie’s was not an identity which sat comfortably within Britpop.
2013 March, Rhian E. Jones, Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender, Collective Ink, page 39:Ladettism was postfeminist in that it was predicated on assertions about female power constructed through rhetoric, practices and imagery that affirmed the self-determination, supremacy, and cultural dominance attributed “masculine” subject positions and male-oriented cultural forms.
2011 March, Diane Negra, Su Holmes, editors, In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 304:Her look for the single was a feminine reclaiming of sleaze and camp, an unfashionable identity in the 90s which differed from that of Riot Grrl, from “ladettism” and from the heroin-chic look of Kate Moss.
2017 February, Rhian E. Jones, Daniel Lukes, Larissa Wodtke, Triptych: An Examination of the Manic Street Preachers Holy Bible, Watkins Media, page 78: