feminist

comparative more feminist · superlative most feminist

1. Relating to or in accordance with feminism.

   Feminist struggle takes place anytime anywhere any female or male resists sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

   2000 May 1, bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, 2nd edition, page xi

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   "Instead, a film he had expected to alienate 90% of its audience and draw flak from feminist groups, gay groups, anti-racist campaigners and conservatives has been lavishly praised by the press, communist and conservative alike." […] Whatever else, Irréversible is already a succès de scandale. [Gaspar] Noé's claims that it is a "feminist" movie sound far-fetched, but he certainly offers an extraordinarily pessimistic view of male sexuality.

   2002 August 2, Geoffrey Macnab, “'The rape had to be disgusting to be useful'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2022

plural feminists

1. An advocate of feminism; a person who believes in bringing about the equality of the sexes (of women and men) in all aspects of public and private life.

   Here’s my own beef. Liberal feminists, young and old, need to question the role they played in Hillary’s demise.

   2016 November 12, Tina Brown, “My beef over Hillary Clinton's loss is with liberal feminists, young and old”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2016

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   Afghan feminists started using the term “gender apartheid” shortly after the Taliban takeover; on International Women’s Day in March of this year, a group of prominent Afghan and Iranian women launched a campaign, asking for it to enter international law as a specific crime.

   2023 June 5, Amie Ferris-Rotman, “For Women Under the Taliban, ‘Gender Apartheid’ Is Their New Life”, in New Lines Magazine, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2024

2. A member of a feminist political movement.