† sexismn.1
Obsolete. rare.
= sixieme n.
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sexism1688
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 73/2 A Sexism, is a sequence of 6 cards.
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sexismn.2
/ˈsɛksɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈsɛkˌsɪz(ə)m/ Originally: the state or condition of belonging to the male or female sex; categorization or reference on the basis of sex (now rare); (in later use) prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.
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sexism1866
sex discrimination1885
male chauvinism1935
phallocentricity1970
gender discrimination1973
phallocentrism1975
phallocracy1977
male-bashing1986
1866 J. H. W. Toohey in Boston Banner of Light 10 Nov. 2 The qualifications are constitutional, if not organic, and, for the first time, become fundamental—mere sexism being of secondary significance.
1873 S. S. Hennell Present Relig. II. i. 319 Intellectual Philosophy..held itself free therefore, stringently, from Sexism.
1906 R. S. Clymer True Spiritualism 91 Abstract rights are inherent in the soul or internal consciousness, and are independent of sexism, excepting that it tones and governs the individual in his or her recognition or apprehension of these inherent rights.
1934 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 12 Mar. 8/3 We have among us now every Old World ism ever conceived—Socialism, Communism, Nazism, Anti-Nazism, atheism, semitism, anti-semitism, internationalism, Fascism, sexism, [etc.].
1963 Morning Herald (Uniontown, Pa.) 2 Jan. 4/2 Several Very Important People in Show Business will unite to combat Sexism in America which some of them contend is as damaging as Communism.
1968 C. Bird in Vital Speeches (U.S.) 15 Nov. 90 Sexism is judging people by their sex where sex doesn't matter.
1971 Guardian 15 Jan. 11/4 The concept of a ‘woman's page’..perpetuates sexism by stressing the ‘special’ domestic interests supposedly adhering to women.
1980 S. Trott When your Lover Leaves (1981) 77 She sees rape as..the extreme of misogyny and sexism.
2000 Internat. Jrnl. Advertising 19 13 Today's ‘retro’ approach, far from glamorising the past, sends up and highlights the ‘clichéd’ scenarios, the blatant sexism, the obvious, simplistic psychosexual imagery.
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