post-feministn.adj.
/ˌpəʊs(t)ˈfɛmᵻnɪst/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈfɛmənəst/ A. n.
Originally: a woman who rejects traditional feminine roles and attitudes (rare). Now: a person (esp. a woman) who exhibits attitudes or behaviour typical of post-feminism; a person who is characteristic of the post-feminist era.In quot. 1919, a publication personified.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by sex > development of feminism or reaction against > advocate or supporter of
post-feminist1919
1919 Judy 1 No. 3. 20 JUDY is a post-feminist. That means we have left—or are in the process of leaving—that stage where ladies say, ‘I am a woman. I have standards thus and so.’
1983 N.Y. Times 20 Jan. c17/4 (heading) British stage feminists and U.S. post-feminists.
1992 Gender & Society 6 142 Stacey argues that as ‘postfeminists’..,the working-class women in her study have absorbed feminist ideas and are actively remaking and revising family life.
2002 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 21/4 A pack of women who claim to be post-feminists, and use their creed, not to help fellow women, but to one-up them: ‘I'm more sexual than you,’ and ‘I earn more money than you.’
B. adj.
Occurring or existing after the feminism of the 1960s and 1970s; of or characteristic of post-feminism.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > [adjective] > discriminatory or inegalitarian > by sex > development of feminism or reaction against
post-feminist1965
1965 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) Aug. (TV section) 6/4 Three career women are interviewed in probe of post-feminist world.
1979 19th-cent. Fiction 33 475 These reprints [will not] suggest new formal possibilities for post-feminist American fiction.
1989 B. Ehrenreich Fear of Falling v. 223 The mood among young career-oriented women was reportedly ‘post-feminist’ and dominated by the conviction that..the way was now open for any young woman..to rise straight to the top.
1996 Independent 3 Jan. (Suppl.) 11/1 Our confused post-feminist era has seen misogyny bounce back via..the ‘new laddism’..which trades on the fact that the female response these days is weary sadness rather than anger.
2002 Today's Parent Pregnancy & Birth Autumn 12/2 The result is extremely satisfying, particularly if you're a woman who wrestles with the push-pull of your life as a post-feminist woman and the biological imperative to reproduce.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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