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Definition of Feminist
1. Noun. A supporter of feminism.
Group relationships: Feminism, Feminist Movement, Women's Lib, Women's Liberation Movement
Generic synonyms: Crusader, Meliorist, Reformer, Reformist, Social Reformer
Specialized synonyms: Suffragette
Specialized synonyms: Beauvoir, Simone De Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Betty Naomi Friedan, Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan, Friedan, Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman, Gilman, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Mott, Alice Paul, Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Stanton, Gloria Steinem, Steinem, Lucy Stone, Stone, Sojourner Truth, Truth, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Fanny Wright, Frances Wright, Wright
Derivative terms: Feminism, Feminism, Women's Lib, Women's Liberation Movement
2. Adjective. Of or relating to or advocating equal rights for women. "Feminist critique"
Definition of Feminist
1. Adjective. Relating to or in accordance with feminism. ¹
2. Noun. A person who supports the equality of women with men. ¹
3. Noun. A member of a feminist political movement. ¹
4. Noun. One who believes in bringing about the social, political, and economical equality of the sexes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Feminist
1. a supporter of feminism [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feminist
Literary usage of Feminist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Batterer Intervention: Program Approaches & Criminal Justice Strategies by Christine Smith, Kerry Healey, Chris O'Sullivan (1999)
"The feminist perspective criticizes the cognitive-behavioral approach for failing
to explain why many men with thought patterns or skills deficits that ..."
2. Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development by Jane L. Parpart, Patricia Connelly, Eudine Barriteau (2000)
"CHAPTER 4 feminist THEORY AND DEVELOPMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY, RESEARCH,
... The discussions of development, feminist theories, and feminist ..."
3. Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism by Floyd Dell (1913)
"... as World Builders CHAPTER I THE feminist MOVEMENT THE feminist movement can
be dealt with in two ways: it can be treated as a sociological abstraction, ..."
4. The Legitimacy of International Organizations by Jean-Marc Coicaud (2001)
"What is clear from the feminist politics of international rights, however, ...
Thus if we go back to the way in which feminist politics cuts across ..."
5. Socialism, Feminism, and Suffragism: The Terrible Triplets, Connected by the by Benjamin Vestal Hubbard (1915)
"CONSEQUENCES OF feminist ASCENDENCY A hint at a few of the consequences which
may be attendant upon feminist Ascendency is shown in this chapter. ..."
6. Wieland's Attitude Toward Woman and Her Cultural and Social Relations by Matthew Gruenberg Bach (1922)
"... THE feminist QUESTION In our first chapter we have pointed out how the ideas
of English and French enlightenment helped to improve the condition of ..."
7. Woman from Bondage to Freedom by Ralcy Husted Bell (1921)
"THE feminist MOVEMENT OMAN was the first slave; she may be the last master.
Nature intended her for neither. Conditions, new to ancient humanity, ..."
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