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PRONUNCIATION OF MATERNALISM

maternalism  [məˈtɜːnəlɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MATERNALISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Maternalism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MATERNALISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Maternalism

Maternalism is the theoretical viewpoint that incorporates a common idea of femininity and applies it as a support for women’s involvement in society.

Definition of maternalism in the English dictionary

The definition of maternalism in the dictionary is the instincts that are characteristic of a mother.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MATERNALISM


aboriginalism
ˌæbəˈrɪdʒɪnəlɪzəm
anti-imperialism
ˌæntɪɪmˈpɪərɪəlɪzəm
antirationalism
ˌæntɪˈræʃənəlɪzəm
bicameralism
baɪˈkæmərəlɪzəm
bilingualism
baɪˈlɪŋɡwəlɪzəm
bioregionalism
ˈbaɪəʊˌriːdʒənəlɪzəm
exceptionalism
ɪkˈsɛpʃənəlɪzəm
factionalism
ˈfækʃənəlɪzəm
herbalism
ˈhɜːbəlɪzəm
hyperadrenalism
ˌhaɪpərəˈdrenəlɪzəm
hyperrealism
ˌhaɪpəˈrɪəlɪzəm
intuitionalism
ˌɪntjʊˈɪʃənəlɪzəm
irrationalism
ɪˈræʃənəlɪzəm
parajournalism
ˌpærəˈdʒɜːnəlɪzəm
polytonalism
ˌpɒlɪˈtəʊnəlɪzəm
supernationalism
ˌsuːpəˈnæʃənəlɪzəm
supranationalism
ˌsuːprəˈnæʃnəlɪzəm
triumphalism
traɪˈʌmfəlɪzəm
unilateralism
ˈjuːnɪˈlætərəlɪzəm
vocationalism
vəʊˈkeɪʃənəlɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MATERNALISM

materialness
materials
materiel
maternal
maternal death
maternal deprivation
maternal health care
maternal instinct
maternalistic
maternally
maternity
maternity allowance
maternity benefit
maternity dress
maternity grant
maternity home
maternity hospital
maternity leave
maternity pay
maternity ward

WORDS THAT END LIKE MATERNALISM

brutalism
capitalism
citizen journalism
colonialism
formalism
imperialism
individualism
journalism
liberalism
literalism
materialism
metabolism
minimalism
nationalism
Orientalism
photojournalism
professionalism
realism
socialism
surrealism
vandalism

Synonyms and antonyms of maternalism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «maternalism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MATERNALISM

Find out the translation of maternalism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of maternalism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «maternalism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

母性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

maternalismo
570 millions of speakers

English

maternalism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

maternalism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

maternalism
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

материнство
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

maternalism
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

maternalism
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

maternalisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Maternalisme
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

maternalism
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

maternalism
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

maternalism
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Maternalisme
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

maternalism
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

maternalism
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मातृभाषा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

maternalism
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

maternalismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

maternalizmu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

материнство
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

maternalism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

maternalism
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

maternalism
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

maternalism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

maternalism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of maternalism

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MATERNALISM»

The term «maternalism» is used very little and occupies the 161.386 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MATERNALISM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «maternalism» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «maternalism» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about maternalism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MATERNALISM»

Discover the use of maternalism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to maternalism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Maternalism Reconsidered: Motherhood, Welfare and Social ...
This volume reassesses maternalism by providingcritical reflections on prior usages of the concept, and by expandingits meaning to encompass geographical areas, political regimes andcultural concerns that scholars have rarely addressed.
Marian van der Klein, 2012
2
White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, ...
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of ...
Margaret D. Jacobs, 2009
3
The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics ...
This is the first comprehensive history of the Womens Joint_x000B_Congressional Committee (WJCC), a large umbrella organization_x000B_founded by former suffrage leaders in 1920 in order to coordinate organized womens reform.
Jan Doolittle Wilson, 2007
4
After Suffrage: Maternalism and the Women's Joint ...
The politics of maternalism are deeply rooted in what it means to be American.
Alexis Taines, 2009
5
The Motherless State: Women's Political Leadership and ...
Welfare Provision Care-Work as Social Maternalism One of the ways the public associates women with social maternalism is as providers of care to people after they are born. Women are more likely than men to nurture and to care for others.
Eileen McDonagh, 2009
6
Maternalism
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Terrence James Victorino, 2011
7
Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in ...
The emphasis on motherhood in Iran spawned a social ideology known as maternalism. There is not, however, a perfect equivalent encapsulating the full range of the term in Persian. Unlike the word feminist, the term maternalist does not ...
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, 2011
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Feminized Justice: The Toronto Women's Court, 1913-34
Histories of juvenile justice reform also make it clear that an abiding characteristic of maternalism was authority, vested in, and out of, particular constellations of gender, race, and class relations: maternalism was as much about transforming ...
Amanda Glasbeek, 2010
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(Dis)Entitling the Poor: The Warren Court, Welfare Rights, ...
laws during the 1910s.4 Ladd-Taylor describes the maternalism of those organizations as "sentimental" because their members relied exclusively on idealized conceptions of "mother-love" and traditional understandings of gender relations.
Elizabeth Bussiere, 2010
10
Mixed Medicines: Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia
Scholarship on the maternalism movement has observed that in Europe during this same period, “maternalism always operated on two levels: it extolled the private virtues of domesticity while simultaneously legitimating women's public ...
Sokhieng Au, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MATERNALISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term maternalism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Fun Ways to Entertain Your Dad on Father's Day | The Daily Meal
For all the good intention of these days, the emphasis on maternalism and paternalism can be soul-piercing for some. Rightfully so, as Dodd ... «The Bell Jar, Jun 15»
2
Feeling loss, love and gratitude on Father's Day
For all the good intention of these days, the emphasis on maternalism and paternalism can be soul-piercing for some. Then there are those for ... «Tallahassee.com, Jun 15»
3
What's behind Rachel Dolezal's perplexing deception?
But in what could be a warped form of maternalism, Dolezal deemed herself the authority on what was best for the black community and other ... «eNCA, Jun 15»
4
Is Sexism in Science Actually Paternalism?
Of course paternalism is linked with sexism (it's not called maternalism for a reason), but I believe that paternalism is much more troubling than ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
5
Former NAACP Leader Rachel Dolezal Speaks Out, Says She …
And here's what I mean by that – this idea of paternalism, this idea of maternalism, we see it in popular culture and movies like 'The Help' and ... «WBUR, Jun 15»
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Things to do and see in Marin County, May 7 through 14, 2015
May 8: Musae and Ragazzi Continuo perform “Monarch: Songs of Beauty, Transformation and Maternalism.” 8 p.m. $15 to $20. Servino ... «Marin Independent Journal, May 15»
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Best bets for the week of May 7 through May 14, 2015
... transformation and maternalism in “Monarch,” featuring the work of Bach, Guillaume Dufay, Vytautas Miskinis, Stephen Smith and Zae Munn. «Marin Independent Journal, May 15»
8
As Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense begins, image matters
“They'll see him as a young boy, and there's a maternalism that they're trying to project,” said George Vien, who is now a defense lawyer with ... «Boston Globe, Apr 15»
9
Vashna Jagarnath
The sort of liberal paternalism, and maternalism, that assumes that inducting black people into the university requires that they be inducted into ... «Daily Maverick, Apr 15»
10
Why I Am Not a Feminist
The name for this monster is Radical Maternalism. ... Radical Maternalism takes the form of ill-conceived policies based upon idiosyncratic ... «PJ Media, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Maternalism [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/maternalism>. May 2024 ».
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