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pop feminism

pop feminism noun: a populist, non-academic approach to feminism, suggesting that women can attain equality with men through a positive, go-getting attitude, without much need to organize politically or to examine or change cultural institutions and biases.

Noun

pop feminism (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, sometimes) A populist, non-academic approach to feminism, suggesting that women can attain equality with men through a positive, go-getting attitude, without much need to organize politically or to examine or change cultural institutions and biases.
    • So pop feminism distorts feminism by depoliticizing it and burying its complexities, and in so diminished a state it has no power to vanquish the male privilege that women experience in their everyday lives.1996, Zillah R. Eisenstein, Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century
    • Cinematherapy combines a strategic mix of pop feminism (which presumes female independence and “girl power”) and stereotypes, then, as a primary method of appealing to female audiences.2006, Barbara Klinger, Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home

Questions about pop feminism

What does pop feminism mean?
Pop feminism means a populist, non-academic approach to feminism, suggesting that women can attain equality with men through a positive, go-getting attitude, without much need to organize politically or to examine or change cultural institutions and biases.
What part of speech is pop feminism?
Pop feminism is a noun.

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