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postfeminist

postfeminist adjective: pertaining to postfeminism.

Adjective

postfeminist (comparative more postfeminist, superlative most postfeminist)

  1. Pertaining to postfeminism.
    • This has meant also a postfeminist, postqueer shift toward a different Foucault than the one we were obsessed with in the 1980s and nineties. If we still use him, it is usually for purposes other than sex: the rethinking of race, sovereignty, religion, and nation.2013, Lynn Huffer, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory

Noun

postfeminist (plural postfeminists)

  1. One who belongs to the postfeminism movement.
    • But to call a group of researchers postfeminist without exploring what exactly that means belittles both feminists and postfeminists alike.2009 February 8, “What Do Women Want?”, in New York Times

Forms of postfeminist

Adjective
comparativemore postfeminist
superlativemost postfeminist
Noun
pluralpostfeminists

Origin of postfeminist

From post- + feminist.

Questions about postfeminist

What does postfeminist mean?
Postfeminist means pertaining to postfeminism.
What part of speech is postfeminist?
Postfeminist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near postfeminist in the dictionary

  1. postfeed
  2. postfeedback
  3. postfeeding
  4. postfeminism
  5. postfeminisms
  6. postfeminist
  7. postfeminists
  8. postfemoral
  9. postfermentation
  10. postfertile
  11. postfertilisation

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