biofascist
biofascist adjective: espousing, characteristic of, or relating to biofascism.
Adjective
biofascist (comparative more biofascist, superlative most biofascist)
- Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to biofascism.
- As such men struggle to forge positive sexual identities, they must confront painful intersections of desire and oppression: white supremacist fantasies of hypersexuality, hyposexuality, or presumed perversity; heterosexist sentiments of disgust; erasures of desire imposed by societal expectations...2000, Kerwin Kay, “Introduction”, in Kerwin Kay, Jill Nagle, Baruch Gould, editors, Male Lust: Pleasure, Power, and Transformation, page xix
- Critical bioethicist Murray (2009) views the conjuncture of contemporary biomedicalization, neoliberalism, and biosocial/biocultural discourses as ultimately biofascist in relentlessly promoting biomedical approaches that seek not only exclude but also to delegitimate alternative approaches to...2011, Adele E. Clarke, Janet Shim, “Medicalization and Biomedicalization Revisted: Technoscience and Transformation of Health, Illness and American Medicine”, in Anne Rogers, Bernice A. Pescosolido...
Noun
biofascist (plural biofascists)
- A proponent or supporter of biofascism.
- Then, too, there are poor reasons to reject the female metaphor for Earth: a man insisted to me that such identification is “very dangerous,” alluding to the patriarchal fear that women are always just a hairsbreadth away from turning into monstrously powerful biofascists.1993, Charlene Spretnak, “Earthbody and Personal Body as Sacred”, in Carol J. Adams, editor, Ecofeminism and the Sacred, page 268
- Specifically, he [Ivan Illich] seemed to be saying that biomedicine is a zero-sum game of sorts, a matter of “biological accountants” or worse, “biofascists”—doctors, drug manufacturers, and hospital managers—inflicting their wills on masses of powerless and innocent victims: us.2008, James Aho, Kevin Aho, Body Matters: A Phenomenology of Sickness, Disease, and Illness, page 7
Examples of biofascist in a sentence
- Another victory for bourgeois righteousness and biofascist norms.2015, Mark Kingwell, Measure Yourself Against the Earth: Essays, page 72:
- Now it's possible that while being leery of her, some ounce of my disdain for people who surgically modify themselves to be cool leaked out, but she turned around and called me a biofascist.2013, Nicholas Wilson, Selected Short Stories Featuring Analog Memory, unnumbered page:
Forms of biofascist
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more biofascist |
| superlative | most biofascist |
| Noun | |
| plural | biofascists |
Origin of biofascist
From bio- + fascist.
Questions about biofascist
- What does biofascist mean?
- Biofascist means espousing, characteristic of, or relating to biofascism.
- How do you use biofascist in a sentence?
- Another victory for bourgeois righteousness and biofascist norms.
- What part of speech is biofascist?
- Biofascist can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near biofascist in the dictionary
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