postfeminist

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adjective

Pertaining to postfeminism.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

adjectivepostfeminist (comparative more postfeminist, superlative most postfeminist)

comparative more postfeminist · superlative most postfeminist

  1. 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
nounpostfeminist (plural postfeminists)

plural postfeminists

  1. 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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Englishfeminist
  8. Englishpostfeminist

From post- + feminist.

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APA

postfeminist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postfeminist

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postfeminist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postfeminist.

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