feministadj.n.

1852 Debow's Rev. 13 269 Our attention has happened to fall upon Mrs. E. O. Smith, who is, we are informed, among the most moderate of the feminist reformers!

1898 Daily Chron. 15 Oct. 5/1 The lady Parliamentary reporter is the latest development of the feminist movement in New Zealand.

1911 Amer. Rev. of Reviews Sept. 355/1 Women organized; groups were formed; feminist papers were launched.

1955 A. M. Lindbergh Gift from Sea iii. 51 Certainly in America, our lives are easier, freer, more open to opportunities, thanks—among other things—to the Feminist battles.

1980 J. R. Richards Sceptical Feminist i. 28 Basic to much recent feminist practice has been the idea of sisterhood, which..involves a determination among members of the women's movement to work together as equals.

1999 Financial Times 9 Oct. (Weekend Mag.) 34 Now, 40 years after pioneering remote-working and high-powered careers for women, she should be hailed as a true feminist heroine.

1887 Bury & Norwich Post 1 Mar. 4/5 The question over which the fight arose was the admission of male delegates, and after a very close vote..the Liberalists beat the Feminists.

1897 Social-Democrat July 205 If all husbands were sent to gaol for trivial assaults on their wives, there would not be enough prisons to contain them. Yet this is exactly what our Feminists are aiming at.

1904 Athenæum 26 Nov. 730/2 There have been feminists who claimed George Eliot as the rival of Thackeray.

1966 B. Brophy Don't never Forget 38 It is about forty years since the pioneer feminists, several of whom were men, raised such a rumpus by rattling the cage bars.

1976 Mother Jones Aug. 2/2 Men (when not being intimidated by puritanical feminists) are at worst only ‘insensitive to women's rights’.

2008 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 78/1 We still call ourselves feminists and insist—vehemently, even—that we're independent and self-sufficient.

1852 Debow's Rev. 13 268 A species of toothache, which by some socialistic, communistic, feministic, Mormonistic, or any other such application of chloroform to the suffering patient, may be made to pass away in a sweet dream of perfection.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 6/3 Some thinkers in Hungary anticipate feministic developments even in Turkey.

1998 E. J. Dickey Milk in my Coffee (2000) i. 10 ‘Typical male response.’ She smiled, then rattled off a very feministic, ‘Don't think women can do much, huh?’