ladettism

Noun

ladettism (uncountable)

1. (rare) Ladettish behaviour; the condition or characteristics of a ladette.
   • Ladettism was postfeminist in that it was predicated on assertions about female power constructed through rhetoric, practices and imagery that affirmed the self-determination, supremacy, and cultural dominance attributed “masculine” subject positions and male-oriented cultural forms.2011 March, Diane Negra, Su Holmes, editors, In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 304
   • Subtly but significantly different from ladettism, whose template was a doeeyed and football-shirted take on the gamine rather than the glamour girl’s campy excess and abundance, Kenickie’s was not an identity which sat comfortably within Britpop.2013 March, Rhian E. Jones, Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender, Collective Ink, page 39