feminism
noun
fem·i·nism
ˈfe-mə-ˌni-zəm 
: belief in and advocacy of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes expressed especially through organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests
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My first book was a set of case studies based on interviews with single women in their thirties, a half generation ahead of me, the advance guard of feminism’s second wave.
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Megan Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025
By Jones is a writer with a strong focus on health, parenting, disability, and feminism.
—Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 28 Jan. 2025
As second-wave feminism reshaped the nation in the 1960s, a new science-fiction twist to steed-and-rider imagery raised the stakes of women’s bonds with beasts by seating them on dragons.
—Rebecca Scofield / Made By History, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025
The introduction argues that feminism opened space for artists to confront corporeal experiences and oppression based in bodily difference, space to show us not generalized or idealized figures, but messy and personal ones instead.
—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 17 Jan. 2025
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Megan Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025
By Jones is a writer with a strong focus on health, parenting, disability, and feminism.
—Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 28 Jan. 2025
As second-wave feminism reshaped the nation in the 1960s, a new science-fiction twist to steed-and-rider imagery raised the stakes of women’s bonds with beasts by seating them on dragons.
—Rebecca Scofield / Made By History, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025
The introduction argues that feminism opened space for artists to confront corporeal experiences and oppression based in bodily difference, space to show us not generalized or idealized figures, but messy and personal ones instead.
—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 17 Jan. 2025
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feminism
noun
fem·i·nism
ˈfem-ə-ˌniz-əm
1
: the theory supporting the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes
2
: organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests
Medical Definition
feminism
noun
fem·i·nism
ˈfem-ə-ˌniz-əm
: the presence of female characteristics in males
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