FEMINIST


Meaning of FEMINIST in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a feminist perspective

If you look at this from a feminist perspective, things are, in fact, not equal.

feminist writing

Feminist writing has strongly criticized pornography as treating women as objects rather than people.

political/scientific/feminist etc viewpoint

From an ecological viewpoint, the motorway has been a disaster.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

contemporary

Most contemporary western feminists show some concern with psychoanalysis.

Their written forms, like autobiographies, biographies, and interviews, make up a large part of contemporary western feminist literature.

Few contemporary feminists would consider the Bible sufficiently central to our oppression to be worthy of this sort of attack.

These procedures are generating an increasingly large part of contemporary feminist literature.

We must continue to intervene in contemporary feminist debates on desire, pleasure, power and image.

Psychoanalysis's incompatibility with many aspects of feminism has led contemporary western feminists to be selective in their use of it.

A parallel argument is put by contemporary feminist writers when they discuss Freud's ideas regarding relationships between parents and children.

early

Women recalled their early experiences in feminist groups: I had a lot of trouble not interrupting.

The earlier feminist critics such as McRobbie and Garber argued that girls learned their roles partly through romantic fiction and girls' magazines.

Undoubtedly, the new availability of earlier texts of feminist interest is helping the explosion.

She was the great-granddaughter of the early nineteenth-century feminist Anna Wheeler.

lesbian

My lesbian socialist feminist identity was fully consolidated and formed the basis of my support network and closest friends.

marxist

The main developments since interactionism have been in phenomenological, Marxist and feminist sociology.

Political explanations Radical feminist and Marxist feminist interpretations of the education system have focused less on attitudes and more on power structures.

From Lovell's Marxist perspective the feminist debates outlined above are misdirected for a variety of reasons.

other

Even if they do, they tend to cordon it off from other feminist issues.

Most liberals, like other feminists , believe that schools are partly responsible for instilling sexist attitudes into children.

In fact the reformism of the symptomatic tendency has been criticised by other feminists almost from the outset.

Their essentialism has been the main focus of criticism from other feminists .

radical

You're a radical feminist tease.

Caroline and a troupe of radical feminists took over my office and kidnapped me.

Political explanations Radical feminist and Marxist feminist interpretations of the education system have focused less on attitudes and more on power structures.

The most radical feminists have approached the question from the opposite direction.

This is broadly the radical feminist viewpoint.

She also endorses the radical feminist view that the well-being of private and public life depends on a better understanding of feeling.

Hillary Clinton is the cool, radical feminist with an independent mind.

recent

I turn then to recent feminist Christological positions.

Much attention by recent feminists has been directed to the doctrine of the Trinity.

Even in the recent past, feminists combined support of causes which would today be considered incompatible.

These aspects have received sustained analysis from recent feminist and social historians.

As we shall see, this is a point which has been made most forcefully by recent feminist writing.

Women's pleasure in viewing then is high on the agenda in recent feminist work on film.

socialist

We would argue that as socialist feminists it is important to challenge owner-occupation as a form of tenure.

Why did socialist feminists accuse us, at best, of being hedonistic female chauvinists, and at worst, Fascists?

My lesbian socialist feminist identity was fully consolidated and formed the basis of my support network and closest friends.

I spoke about my frustrations, about not being able to read socialist and feminist books and magazines.

The contradictions are reflected in the political arguments - and political rows - between socialist feminists and the fledgling labour movement bureaucracy.

western

Some western feminists , too, are concerned about psychological method's strong affiliations to dominant discourses of gender.

Most contemporary western feminists show some concern with psychoanalysis.

Their written forms, like autobiographies, biographies, and interviews, make up a large part of contemporary western feminist literature.

But liberal as she is, she sometimes impulsively says things that would shock Western feminists .

But second-wave western feminists display this approach at times.

Psychoanalysis's incompatibility with many aspects of feminism has led contemporary western feminists to be selective in their use of it.

How do second-wave western feminists see subjectivity?

The polarity between biological and social explanations of subjectivity has been as controversial among western feminists as among psychologists.

■ NOUN

analysis

But that he had a feminist analysis of society is something for which there is no evidence.

Yet the feminist analysis of insults, from the small to the truly gross, would miss something if it stopped there.

The exhibition became a milestone in feminist analysis of contemporary culture.

art

It is because they have already been widely written about in feminist art history?

How does it feel, 8 years later, to still be at the cutting edge of feminist art practice?

She also pays due attention to the different positioning of black women artists within feminist art practice.

The Expanding Discourse maps the progress and diversity of feminist art history debates through 29 essays written in the 1980s.

group

I have been told that this decision was partly in response to lobbying by feminist groups .

The idea of Veronica Puddephat joining any sort of feminist group was entirely incongruous.

movement

Radical reform is far more closely associated with the feminist movement .

It is through her emergence as a cult painter of the feminist movement of the 1970s that her current reputation has evolved.

perspective

And we have latterly seen a feminist perspective informing the debate about nuclear weapons.

That which a feminist perspective enables us to perceive is valid for everyone.

A feminist perspective on, and analysis of, architecture and planning has only just begun to emerge over the last decade.

The emerging feminist perspectives on poverty, too, have been resourced primarily by the accounts provided by white women.

If you look at things from a feminist perspective they are, in fact, not equal.

Philosophy from a feminist perspective has practical implications for both philosophers and feminists.

Although socialists are now beginning to take up these questions, a feminist perspective highlights these as central issues.

politics

In the last instance, it views feminist politics as an elaboration of biology.

And most importantly, aren't Lacanian feminist explanations retreats from feminist politics , into psychoanalysis's traditional phallocentrism?

I came across feminist politics while I was at college in London in the mid-seventies.

psychology

Such a climate increases the likelihood that egalitarian feminist psychology will be incorporated into the traditional discipline.

Because egalitarian feminist psychology wants to adapt conventional psychology, rather than replace it, it has to begin from psychology's self-definition.

Lacanian-influenced feminism is hardly an ideal response to the deficiencies in feminist psychology .

But elements of a more ambivalent, productive, associative approach to signification also exist within feminist psychology .

Unlike the versions of feminist psychology examined before, associative feminist psychologies are rarely deliberately or self-consciously adopted.

Its concern with celebrating femininity encourages it to pass over more of traditional psychology's gender biases than egalitarian feminist psychology does.

theory

Specifically she develops two areas, feminist theory and liberation theology, as potential candidates to regenerate the social group work movement.

The difference is, of course, that feminist criticism arises from the experience of feminism and from taking feminist theories seriously.

Brooke-Rose's engagement with feminist theory is typical of her encounter with literary theory in general.

writer

Other feminist writers , however, have tried to reevaluate the significance of psychoanalytic theory for feminism.

Furthermore, women are not tied to the kitchen sink in the way often caricatured by feminist writers .

A parallel argument is put by contemporary feminist writers when they discuss Freud's ideas regarding relationships between parents and children.

■ VERB

argue

As the last chapter argued , many feminist psychologists pass over signification, in favour of simpler objects.

We would argue that as socialist feminists it is important to challenge owner-occupation as a form of tenure.

Likewise she argued that the feminist versions of Althusserian concepts of ideology overemphasised textuality at the expense of social and economic analysis.

draw

What conclusions should we draw as feminists concerning housing policy in the public sector, and what demands should we make?

Egalitarian feminist psychologists draw on both feminist and psychological criticisms of gender imbalance among psychologists.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

In the 1960's I saw myself as a revolutionary and a radical feminist .

The feminists marched in thousands when David Laing urged married women to give up their jobs and stay at home.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

For feminists, therefore, the comfort they give is illusory.

If strong women characters do appear in Hollywood film, this is no consolation for feminists.

Lesbian feminist psychologists' research focuses mainly on sexuality.

Likewise she argued that the feminist versions of Althusserian concepts of ideology overemphasised textuality at the expense of social and economic analysis.

Right-On movements such as the feminists and the peace campaigners evolved complicated systems to ensure this happened.

Some western feminists, too, are concerned about psychological method's strong affiliations to dominant discourses of gender.

The irony is that the threat of violence has come from anti-abortion Republicans, not anti-Republican feminist , gay and Chicano protesters.

These feminist differences surfaced in a more extreme form in the months after the passing of the act.

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