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parafeminism en · NOUN

Etymology

From para- + feminism, coined by Amelia Jones.

Meanings

  1. (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:

wikipedia: Amelia Jones