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femaleist

femaleist noun: one who acknowledges and celebrates the ways in which women are different from men (in addition to the obvious difference in reproductive organs).

Noun

femaleist (plural femaleists)

  1. One who acknowledges and celebrates the ways in which women are different from men (in addition to the obvious difference in reproductive organs).
    • The femaleist premise could be summarized as: Yes, we are different—wanna make something of it?1999 March 1, Barbara Ehrenreich, “The Real Truth About The Female Body”, in Time
    • “What my book does, I think, is say, Let’s look at ourselves and not feel defensive,”’ says Mill Valley writer Dianne Hale, author of “Just Like a Woman: How Gender Science Is Redefining What Makes Us Female” (Bantam), published last month. Hale and the authors of the two similar books have been...1999 April 4, Joan Ryan, “Men, Women, Apples and Oranges”, in The San Francisco Chronicle

Examples of femaleist in a sentence

  • Hale and the authors of the two similar books have been described as “femaleists” rather than feminists.1999 April 4, Joan Ryan, “Men, Women, Apples and Oranges”, in The San Francisco Chronicle:
  • The ad industry portrayed the role reversal that feminists have coveted for the past twenty years . . . the femaleist party line that women are more "manly" than men could ever hope to be!2000, Diane Passno, Feminism: Mystique Or Mistake?, →ISBN:
  • I am a “femaleist.”I think that beer, when at its best, empowers women.2006, Christopher Mark O'Brien, Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World, →ISBN:

Forms of femaleist

pluralfemaleists

Origin of femaleist

From female + -ist coined in 1999 by Barbara Ehrenreich.

Questions about femaleist

What does femaleist mean?
Femaleist means one who acknowledges and celebrates the ways in which women are different from men (in addition to the obvious difference in reproductive organs).
How do you use femaleist in a sentence?
Hale and the authors of the two similar books have been described as “femaleists” rather than feminists.
What part of speech is femaleist?
Femaleist is a noun.
What is the plural of femaleist?
The plural of femaleist is femaleists.

Words near femaleist in the dictionary

  1. femalecentric
  2. femaledom
  3. femalefolk
  4. femalefolks
  5. femalehood
  6. femaleist
  7. femaleists
  8. femaleless
  9. femalelessness
  10. femalelike
  11. femalely

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