单词 | pre-feminist |
释义 | pre-feministadj. Of, designating, or characteristic of a period before feminism, esp. of the period before the intense feminist activism and significant improvement in women's rights of the 1960s and 1970s. ΚΠ 1933 Times 8 Sept. 10/3 The final redemption (through woman, of course, in those pre-feminist times) is certainly not free from bombast—organ, throbbing strings, and solemn male-voiced choir. 1975 Signs 1 180 Happily, I confess that my professional interest spans prefeminist as a well as feminist periods. 1990 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Aug. 112/2 Like Monroe..and other pre-feminist bombshells—she's often cast as the fatally attractive woman whose very presence provokes men to violence. 2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 1 Jan. e5/1 Today they [sc. pulp fiction novels] provoke a kind of laughter of recognition of those sometimes painful prefeminist days when women were either dames or virgins, forced to chose between love and marriage, and often punished for being sexual. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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