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feminationalism

feminationalism noun: the association between a nationalist ideology and some feminist ideas, specially when having xenophobic motivations.

Noun

feminationalism (uncountable)

  1. (neologism) The association between a nationalist ideology and some feminist ideas, specially when having xenophobic motivations.
    • I claim that women were closely engaged in combining the feminized body with national politics, a feminationalism.2015, Cristina Devereaux Ramírez, Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942, →ISBN
    • This rhetoric of Norwegian exceptionalism did not only work to strengthen already well-established forms of what Nazila Kivi (2015) has termed “feminationalism” in Norway, where feminist rhetoric is used to buttress nationalist politics and self-understandings in ways that figures other geographies...2016, Mathias Danbolt, “Breaking the Waves. Tuning into Queer History with Frank’s Voluspå”, in Föreningen Lambda Nordica

Examples of feminationalism in a sentence

  • The discourse of ‘feminationalism’ is closely related to homonationalism in which the xenophobic right is claiming that migration is a threat to the rights of the LBGT community.2017, Alison Treacher, “A feminism for the 21ˢᵗ century”, in Socialist Resistance:
  • Feminationalism does not imply a common struggle for freedom, but sees the state as a protector of ’poor’ women from ’foreign’ men.2018, Socialistisk Arbejderparti (Denmark), “Global Migration”, in International Viewpoint:

Forms of feminationalism

alternative formfemonationalism

Origin of feminationalism

Blend of feminism + nationalism.

Questions about feminationalism

What does feminationalism mean?
Feminationalism means the association between a nationalist ideology and some feminist ideas, specially when having xenophobic motivations.
How do you use feminationalism in a sentence?
The discourse of ‘feminationalism’ is closely related to homonationalism in which the xenophobic right is claiming that migration is a threat to the rights of the LBGT community.
What part of speech is feminationalism?
Feminationalism is a noun.

Words near feminationalism in the dictionary

  1. feminars
  2. feminas
  3. feminasties
  4. feminasty
  5. feminate
  6. feminationalism
  7. feminazi
  8. feminazis
  9. feminazism
  10. femineity
  11. feminerd

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