femino-

prefix

Pertaining to feminism or to women generally.

Meanings

prefix
  1. Pertaining to feminism or to women generally.

    Further, other women relieved of family caring roles by the availability of the public services, enter other parts of the labour force. This leads to a kind of femino-multiplier of job creation.

    2012 September 27, Giuliano Bonoli, David Natali, The Politics of the New Welfare State, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 56
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    Appropriating elements from Max Stirner, Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Havelock Ellis, Henri Bergson, and Edward Carpenter, she set forth an unprecedented egoistic strain of femino-anarchism.

    1996, Bruce Clarke, Dora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender, Individualism, Science, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 8

    Contemporary Arab Women's Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance is contextualised within an intersectional framework of feminist and postcolonial lens that is recent, gender-focused and politically informed; as such, closely relevant to the newly-emerging, and shifting, femino-political concerns of the contemporary Arab region.

    2023 February 8, Hiyem Cheurfa, Contemporary Arab Women's Life Writing and the Politics of Resistance, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 5

Origin

  1. Latinfemina“woman”
  2. Englishfemino-

Latin femina (“woman”) with -o-.

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APA

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Chicago

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