Concept cluster: Society > Feminism and gender studies
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(neologism) A feminist movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault.
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The view that women are biologically superior to men
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(archaic, sometimes derogatory) Support for equal rights for women; an early form of feminism.
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(derogatory, slang) stridently feminist
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Someone who believes that men and women are equal in status but can have different and complementary roles, especially in marriage.
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(slang) A radical feminist who uses persuasion and education in their approach.
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(informal) Synonym of women's liberation
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A belief in the innate superiority of women over men.
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A female advocate of female chauvinism.
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One who acknowledges and celebrates the ways in which women are different from men (in addition to the obvious difference in reproductive organs).
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(rare) Someone who courts or pursues the female sex; a womanizer.
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(slang, vulgar, derogatory) An intolerant feminist, often used by anti-feminists to refer to a feminist in general.
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Alternative form of femicentric [woman-centric; focusing on women or pertaining to a focus on women (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such focus is misandric)]
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(derogatory, rare) A feminist with left-wing leanings.
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(US, offensive, rare, derogatory) A radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views.
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A seminar on feminist topics.
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(derogatory) Synonym of feminist
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(derogatory, potentially offensive) Relating to a radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or who seeks superiority of women over men.
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(slang) A feminist nerd, especially a woman.
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(rare) feminine behaviour
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relating to or in accordance with feminism.
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(rare, informal, derogatory) Synonym of underwater basket weaving (useless academic course or major)
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women's studies
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(rare, slang, derogatory) A Hispanic female feminist.
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(colloquial) Like a feminist, or like stereotypical feminist beliefs.
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woman-centric, focused on women; of or pertaining to feminocentrism
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focus on women; a female-centered worldview (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such a focus is misandric)
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(slang, derogatory) A feminist.
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(rare) Someone who studies feminology.
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(rare) Synonym of women's studies.
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(derogatory, offensive) A crazy feminist.
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(informal, rare) Exaggerated, stubborn, or aggressive femininity; female machismo.
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(derogatory) A person with feminist and communist beliefs.
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(derogatory) A feminist clique that focuses on its own interests rather than those of women in general.
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(Australia) A female politician or senior civil servant; a female bureaucrat in an agency dealing with women's issues.
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(neologism) The association of a nationalist ideology with feminism, especially when having xenophobic motivations.
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Relating to femonationalism.
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(derogatory) The characteristic jargon of feminists and feminist discourse.
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The explanation of feminist concepts, often to a man in a condescending and rude manner.
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(rare, nonstandard, feminism) Synonym of menstruate
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(slang, derogatory, rare) A person who sympathizes with the aims and beliefs of feminists.
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(slang, derogatory) A feminist.
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The use of feminist messages to advertise products to women.
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The original period of concerted feminist activity during the 19th and early 20th century, focusing on de jure gender inequalities, primarily that of suffrage (the right to vote).
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A feminist in the era of first-wave feminism.
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(feminism) A feminist of an earlier generation.
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A form of Christian-oriented, female-led masculism in South Africa.
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(rare) One who studies gender.
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The historical study of women writers as a distinct literary tradition.
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Alternative form of hate speech [Speech that attacks or disparages a person or group of persons on the basis of origin, race, nationality, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.]
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A theoretical early state of human society (as postulated by 19th-century anthropologists) which was characterized by the absence of the institution of marriage in any form, and where women were the common property of their tribe, and the children never knew their fathers.
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Alternative form of hetaerism [A theoretical early state of human society (as postulated by 19th-century anthropologists) which was characterized by the absence of the institution of marriage in any form, and where women were the common property of their tribe, and the children never knew their fathers.]
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Alternative form of hetaerism [A theoretical early state of human society (as postulated by 19th-century anthropologists) which was characterized by the absence of the institution of marriage in any form, and where women were the common property of their tribe, and the children never knew their fathers.]
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obsolete typography of hetaerism [A theoretical early state of human society (as postulated by 19th-century anthropologists) which was characterized by the absence of the institution of marriage in any form, and where women were the common property of their tribe, and the children never knew their fathers.]
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Someone who belongs to a marginalized subgroup, and can therefore described by a hyphenated term, such as "German-American", "female-academic", etc.
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(informal) A liberal feminist.
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A male advocate of male chauvinism.
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(rare) The state or essence of being a mandarin.
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(slang, derogatory) A man who identifies as a feminist.
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(derogatory, rare) A person who is aggressively masculinist.
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Advocacy of men's rights.
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Synonym of matriarchy
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A movement or philosophy, often presented satirically, in favour of the rights and interests of men.
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An advocate of the MGTOW phenomenon.
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(LGBT) A gender-neutral title used instead of Mr (Mister), Mrs (Mistress), etc.
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(rare) Feminist spelling of man
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(rare) A modern misogynist.
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(US, slang, derogatory) One who engages in nepotism, usually referring to the one who benefits from it.
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(slang, sometimes derogatory) A radical feminist who is cordial and patient in their approach.
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(feminism, rare) A seminar for feminists.
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one who causes or fuels racial or ethnic tensions
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(by extension) The subculture of men who share a belief in the gynocentrism of modern society; manosphere.
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(Internet slang) One who believes that society is gynocentric.
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(slang) A radical feminist who is blunt, confrontational, and sometimes abusive in their approach.
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A period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s in the United States and broadened the gender equality debate to include family, the workplace, reproductive rights, etc.
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Of or relating to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950–2009), American writer on gender studies, queer theory, and critical theory.
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(informal, humorous) Of or pertaining to suffragettes.
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(historical) A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century, especially in Great Britain.
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The suffragette movement for women's voting rights.
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(see usage notes) A sex worker-exclusionary radical feminist; a feminist who opposes the sex industry, particularly the production and distribution of pornography, typically viewing it as coercive or abusive of the women involved.
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Alternative spelling of third-wave feminist [A follower of third-wave feminism.]
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A period of feminist activity that began in the early 1990s as a response to perceived failures of second-wave initiatives to address the needs of women of many races, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and cultural backgrounds.
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Of or relating to author Alice Walker (born 1944), who coined the term womanism.
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Alternative form of wifeism [(Nigeria, politics) A patriarchal societal tendency whereby women can only achieve things as the wives of men of rank.]
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(rare, feminism) A feminist manifesto.
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An extension to feminism that incorporates respect for women of all races and classes.
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One whose beliefs accord with womanism.
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(informal) Clipping of women's liberation.: the feminist movement for equal rights; women's liberation [The freedom of women from sexism; equal rights for women.]
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The struggle or campaigns to achieve this goal.
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The academic field which examines topics concerning women, feminism, and the relationship of gender and politics.
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(very rare, nonstandard) Feminist spelling of women (Compare womyn.)

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