Meanings
nounparafeminism (uncountable)
- uncountableA variety of feminism that seeks to better the conditions of women but considers men and women to be fundamentally different.
Parafeminism encourages women to become equal to men by becoming more pleasing to them.
2013, Michael Trask, Camp Sites: Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar America, page 2011 more example
Understanding gender 'as a question rather than an answer', contextual, nonprescriptive and inherently intersectional, parafeminism sheds 'some of the closures and limitations' of the second wave […]
2017, Alexandra M. Kokoli, The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice, page 61
Origin
From para- + feminism, coined by Amelia Jones.
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