Meanings
comparative more postfeminist · superlative most postfeminist
- Pertaining to postfeminism.
This has meant also a postfeminist, postqueer shift toward a different Foucault than the one we were obsessed with in the 1980s and nineties. If we still use him, it is usually for purposes other than sex: the rethinking of race, sovereignty, religion, and nation.
2013, Lynn Huffer, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory
plural postfeminists
- One who belongs to the postfeminism movement.
But to call a group of researchers postfeminist without exploring what exactly that means belittles both feminists and postfeminists alike.
2009 February 8, “What Do Women Want?”, in New York Times
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*pós
- Proto-Indo-European*pósti
- Proto-Italic*posti
- Old Latinposte
- Latinpost
- Englishpost-
- Englishfeminist
- Englishpostfeminist
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