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Dworkinism

Dworkinism noun: dworkinian feminism.

Noun

Dworkinism (uncountable)

  1. Dworkinian feminism
    • Seeing Dworkinism flare up in the gay community just brings bad memories of '70s feminism […]1997, Charles Lyons, The New Censors: Movies and the Culture Wars, page 125
    • But fighting Dworkinism and other forms of sexual conservative politics with a sex-positive agenda can also reproduce the racism inherent in the mainstream gay movement.2004, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, page 26

Origin of Dworkinism

From Dworkin + -ism.

Questions about Dworkinism

What does Dworkinism mean?
Dworkinism means dworkinian feminism.
What part of speech is Dworkinism?
Dworkinism is a noun.

Words near Dworkinism in the dictionary

  1. dword
  2. dwords
  3. Dworkin
  4. Dworkinian
  5. Dworkinians
  6. Dworkinism
  7. Dworkinite
  8. Dworkinites
  9. Dworkins
  10. dwornikite
  11. Dworp

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