Dworkinism

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noun

Dworkinian feminism

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Meanings

nounDworkinism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableDworkinian feminism

    Seeing Dworkinism flare up in the gay community just brings bad memories of '70s feminism […]

    1997, Charles Lyons, The New Censors: Movies and the Culture Wars, page 125
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    But fighting Dworkinism and other forms of sexual conservative politics with a sex-positive agenda can also reproduce the racism inherent in the mainstream gay movement.

    2004, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, page 26

Origin

From Dworkin + -ism.

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