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masculism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmæskjəlɪzm/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From mascul(ine) + -ism, as opposed to feminism. Doublet of machismo.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Advocacy of men's rights.
   • […] proposing the development of a counter corrective movement to be called "Masculism" — lady, I thank thee for that word! — a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men. […] In his plea for masculism John Macy defies the champions of present-day feminism. 1927, Harper's Magazine, volume 153:
   • Unfortunately, masculism also has a tendency to adopt the less constructive traits and tactics of modern feminism, including polarizing rhetoric, exaggerated claims of victimization as the basis of political demands, and the tailoring of facts to fit ideology. 1994 July, Cathy Young, “Man Troubles”, in Reason:
   • I assume, in other words, that a healthy feminism will be promasculist, just as a healthy masculism will be profeminist. 1994, Doug Robinson, No Less a Man: Masculist Art in a Feminist Age, Bowling Green: Popular Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 23:
2. (uncountable, usually) Support for patriarchy / male domination of women; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism.
   • Titling a 1914 public lecture series at New York's Astor Hotel, “Studies in Masculism,” she complained that the printer objected to the word and attempted to change it. Despite an unfriendly press, she specially targeted "masculist" authors and purveyors of negative views of women. 2009, Judith A. Allen, The feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: sexualities, histories, progressivism, page 152:
   • As Brittan (1989:4) has succinctly put it, "the ideology that justifies and naturalizes male domination" is "masculism." And masculism is already antisocial because masculism as an ideology universalizes "man" as the "maker" of history. 2003, Punishment and Social Control, second edition (Thomas G. Blomberg, Stanley Cohen), page 125
   • The ages of masculism are now drawing to a close. Their dying days are lit up by a final flare of universal violence and despair such as the world has seldom before seen. 1971, Elizabeth Gould Davis, The First Sex, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, ch. 22:
   • Fascism, fully revealed, is the extreme, exquisite expression of masculism, of patriarchy, and thus the natural enemy of feminism, its quintessential opposite. 1983, Sheila Ruth, quoted in Judith Evans (1986), Feminism and Political Theory http://books.google.com/books?id=094_AAAAMAAJ, page 70
3. (uncountable, usually) Sexism in favor of men.
   • It often takes a crisis of some sort to initiate the difficult but empowering feminist process of renegotiating the masculisms that dominate the discourses of origin, authenticity and belonging in a way that transforms margins into frontiers, lack into (ad)vantage. 1997 June 25, Nalini Persram, “In my father's house are many mansions”, in Black British Feminism: A Reader, →ISBN, →OL, page 213:
   • Masculism, the form of sexism practiced in our culture, has many facets, and we shall explore them in Chapter 2. Here we need only say that masculism is in part the mistaking of male perspectives, beliefs, attitudes, standards, values, and perceptions for all human perceptions. 1980 February, Sheila Ruth, Issues in Feminism: A First Course in Women's Studies, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, →OL, page 7:
   • Residual masculism remained quite powerful, and does so to this day. At school, boys continue to command more playground space and teacher attention than do girls. 2001, James Belich, Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 508:

Forms

Relateds

feminism · feminist · masculist · masculinism · masculinist · formenism

Synonyms

androcentrism · masculinism · patriarchalism

Translations (35)

sh maskulinìzam (a social theory or political movement) · pt masculinismo (a social theory or political movement) · ru маскулини́зм (a social theory or political movement) · ko 남성주의 (a social theory or political movement) · ru маскули́зм (a social theory or political movement) · sh maskulìzam (a social theory or political movement) · ca masculinisme (a social theory or political movement) · sh маскулѝзам (a social theory or political movement) · fr masculinisme (a social theory or political movement) · gl masculinismo (a social theory or political movement) · ka მასკულიზმი (a social theory or political movement) · uk маскулі́зм (a social theory or political movement) · sh маскулинѝзам (a social theory or political movement) · ar ذُكُورِيَّة (a social theory or political movement) · da maskulinisme (a social theory or political movement) · mk маскули́зам (a social theory or political movement) · fa ماسکولیسم (a social theory or political movement) · it mascolinismo (a social theory or political movement) · es masculinismo (a social theory or political movement) · sk maskulinizmus (a social theory or political movement) · be маскулі́зм (a social theory or political movement) · cmn 男性主義 /男性主义 (a social theory or political movement) · de Maskulismus (a social theory or political movement) · fi maskulinismi (a social theory or political movement) · de Maskulinismus (a social theory or political movement) · sl maskulinizem (a social theory or political movement) · tr maskülizm (a social theory or political movement) · nl masculinisme (a social theory or political movement) · bg маскули́зъм (a social theory or political movement) · cs maskulinismus (a social theory or political movement) · sl maskulizem (a social theory or political movement) · fi maskulismi (a social theory or political movement) · fr masculisme (a social theory or political movement) · pl maskulinizm (a social theory or political movement) · ja マスキュリズム (a social theory or political movement)