parafeminism en · NOUN
Etymology
From para- + feminism, coined by Amelia Jones.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A variety of feminism that seeks to better the conditions of women but considers men and women to be fundamentally different.
Parafeminism encourages women to become equal to men by becoming more pleasing to them.
2013, Michael Trask, Camp Sites: Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar America, page 201:Understanding gender 'as a question rather than an answer', contextual, nonprescriptive and inherently intersectional, parafeminism sheds 'some of the closures and limitations' of the second wave […]
2017, Alexandra M. Kokoli, The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice, page 61: