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masculinism en · NOUN

Etymology

From masculine + -ism, as opposed to feminism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) An ideology of masculinity or of male rights; considered as opposed to feminism.
    • […] the transition to liberal capitalism offers men the opportunity of putting a greatly increased social distance between themselves and women. It is the rise of masculinism which is the primary characteristic of gender relations in Eastern Europe today. 1996, Peggy Watson, "The Rise of Masculinism in Eastern Europe", chapter 6 of Monica Threlfall (editor), Mapping the Women’s Movement, Verso, page 216
    • However, it is possible to examine the broader historical contours of masculinism – the ideology that justifies male domination – and the masculinist institutions that endorse masculinism […] 2007, Satoshi Ikedia, “Masculinity and masculinism under globalization: Reflections on the Canadian case”, chapter 6 of Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Janine Brodie (editors), Remapping Gender in the New Global Order, Routledge, page 112
    • Each is laden with assumptions and appropriations that, in discursive terms, reinforce a culture of masculinism – the cultural dominance of the male (in the public sphere). 2002, Stephen M. Whitehead, Men and Masculinities, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 115:
    • While only women can participate in the building of a feminist culture, without the interference — however well-intentioned — of men, men can facilitate that process by refusing to participate in the old order of masculinism. 1981 August 15, Cliff Flanders, “Anti-Masculinists”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 4:
    • […] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: […] 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
  2. (uncountable, usually) Mannishness.
    • The greater part of these various anatomical peculiarities and functional anomalies point, more or less clearly, to the prevalence among inverts of a tendency to infantilism, combined with feminism in men and masculinism in women 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6):

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Deriveds

hypermasculinism

Relateds

feminism · feminist · egalitarianism · masculinist · equalism

Synonyms

masculism