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Meaning of "postfeminist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POSTFEMINIST

postfeminist  [pəʊstˈfɛmɪnɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POSTFEMINIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Postfeminist can act as a noun and an adjective.
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WHAT DOES POSTFEMINIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Postfeminism

Post-feminism is a reaction against some perceived contradictions and absences of second-wave feminism. The term post-feminism is ill-defined and is used in inconsistent ways. However, it generally connotes the belief that feminism has succeeded in its goal of ameliorating sexism, making it fundamentally opposed to the third-wave intention of broadening feminist struggles. It was historically used to pose a contrast with a prevailing or preceding feminism.

Definition of postfeminist in the English dictionary

The first definition of postfeminist in the dictionary is resulting from or including the beliefs and ideas of feminism. Other definition of postfeminist is differing from or showing moderation of these beliefs and ideas. Postfeminist is also a person who believes in or advocates any of the ideas that have developed from the feminist movement.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POSTFEMINIST


alpinist
ˈælpɪnɪst
antifeminist
ˌæntɪˈfɛmɪnɪst
arcanist
ɑːˈkeɪnɪst
Brahminist
ˈbrɑːmɪnɪst
Darwinist
ˈdɑːwɪnɪst
determinist
dɪˈtɜːmɪnɪst
ecofeminist
ˌiːkəʊˈfɛmɪnɪst
feminist
ˈfɛmɪnɪst
finest
ˈfaɪnɪst
illuminist
ɪˈluːmɪnɪst
indeterminist
ˌɪndɪˈtɜːmɪnɪst
Marxist-Leninist
ˈmɑːksɪstˈlɛnɪnɪst
misogynist
mɪˈsɒdʒɪnɪst
nonfeminist
ˌnɒnˈfɛmɪnɪst
phenomenist
fɪˈnɒmɪnɪst
profeminist
prəʊˈfɛmɪnɪst
Stalinist
ˈstɑːlɪnɪst
terminist
ˈtɜːmɪnɪst
thinnest
ˈθɪnɪst
violinist
ˌvaɪəˈlɪnɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POSTFEMINIST

posterize
postern
posterolateral
posteruptive
postexercise
postexilian
postexilic
postexperience
postexposure
postface
postfire
postfix
postfixal
postflight
postform
postgame
postganglionic
postglacial
postgrad
postgraduate

WORDS THAT END LIKE POSTFEMINIST

burinist
chauvinist
clavecinist
cocainist
communist
concertinist
declinist
doctrinist
Jainist
Latinist
Leninist
libidinist
machinist
magazinist
male chauvinist
mandolinist
masculinist
rabbinist
routinist
tambourinist
trampolinist

Synonyms and antonyms of postfeminist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «postfeminist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POSTFEMINIST

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

Translator English - Chinese

postfeminist
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

postfeminista
570 millions of speakers

English

postfeminist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

postfeminist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

postfeminist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

постфеминистские
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pós-feminista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

postfeminist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

post-féministe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Postfeminist
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

postfeministische
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

postfeminist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

postfeminist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Postfeminist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

postfeminist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

postfeminist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोस्टफॉमीनिस्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

postfeminist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

postfeminist
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

postfeminist
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

постфеміністскіе
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

postfeminist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

postfeminist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

postfeminist
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

postfeminist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

postfeminist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of postfeminist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POSTFEMINIST»

The term «postfeminist» is used very little and occupies the 156.698 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POSTFEMINIST» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSTFEMINIST»

Discover the use of postfeminist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to postfeminist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Postfeminist Education?: Girls and the Sexual Politics of ...
This book challenges a contemporary postfeminist sensibility grounded not only in assumptions that gender and sexual equality has been achieved in many Western contexts, but that feminism has gone ‘too far’ with women and girls now ...
Jessica Ringrose, 2013
2
Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture
Political Women in Media Culture Mary Douglas Vavrus. print news organizations are rife with reports and other signs of sex discrimi- nation.Television news correspondent Marlene Sanders (1993) argues that this is due, in part, to a lack ...
Mary Douglas Vavrus, 2012
3
Watching Rape: Film and Television in Postfeminist Culture
In "Watching Rape", Sarah Projansky undermines the complacent view - that equality for women has already been achieved - in her analysis of depictions of rape in US film, televsion, and independent video.
Sarah Projansky, 2001
4
Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World: Toward an Engaged ...
Ranging across contemporary culture from the academy to shopping malls, this book offers engaged cultural criticism in a postfeminist context.
Frances E. Mascia-Lees, Patricia Sharpe, 2012
5
Feminism Without Women: Culture and Criticism in a ...
--Publisher's description. In 'Feminism Without Women' Tania Modleski examines 'the myth of postfeminism' and its operation in popular culture, especially popular film and cultural studies.
Tania Modleski, 1991
6
Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping: No Time for Mother
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Northwestern University.
Elizabeth Nathanson, 2013
7
Micro-politics: Agency in a Postfeminist Era
Patricia S. Mann explains our current period as a time of social transformation resulting from an 'unmooring' of women, men, and children from the nuclear family, gender relations having replaced economic relations as the primary site of ...
Patricia S. Mann, 1994
8
The Postfeminist Biopic: Narrating the Lives of Plath, ...
I hope to show the multifaceted meanings present in these individual films as strategies of the postfeminist biopic. The danger of such an approach, particularly within genre studies, is that the set of examples may seem rather limited. How can ...
Bronwyn Polaschek, 2013
9
Postfeminist Gothic: Critical Interventions in Contemporary ...
This edited collection of original essays examines a number of Gothic texts, from Anne Radcliffe's romances to modern horror films, in conjunction with diverse postfeminist theories, from backlash to postmodern feminism.
Benjamin A. Brabon, Stéphanie Genz, 2007
10
As Easy as Pie: Housework, Temporality, and Postfeminist ...
In an era in which women are expected to "have it all" by balancing public and private sphere responsibilities, the media increasingly define femininity in terms that are uniquely temporal.
Elizabeth Nathanson, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POSTFEMINIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term postfeminist is used in the context of the following news items.
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Can 'Trainwreck' Help Save The Romantic Comedy?
And yet, I hate that rejecting the postfeminist dystopia involves reverting to finding a guy. In her essay for Buzzfeed, Anne Helen Petersen read ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
Daily Reads: 'Trainwreck's Anti-Postfeminism, How 'Ant-Man …
What distinguishes "Trainwreck" from other postfeminist dystopias, then, is the way that it offers Amy a narrative path away from it. That path ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
3
"Trainwreck" Is A Romantic Comedy For People Who Hate Romantic …
Amy Schumer might not have set out to make a movie that was feminist or postfeminist. She might have just wanted to make a movie that turned ... «The Frisky, Jul 15»
4
Real women, real issues abound this summer
... film and media studies at Emory University and the author of American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture. «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
5
Weekly gossip dump: 'Trainwreck' a hit, Fey & Poehler at it again
Schumer turns the cliche Apatow film into something less predictable with her "deliriously dirty postfeminist brand of feminism," EW writes. «SILive.com, Jul 15»
6
Trainwreck: EW review
Now she's parlaying her deliriously dirty postfeminist brand of feminism into a bid for movie stardom in Judd Apatow's new comedy, Trainwreck. «Entertainment Weekly, Jul 15»
7
The Sneaky Power of Amy Schumer, in 'Trainwreck' and Elsewhere
... of women,” said Ms. Schreiber, the professor and author of “American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture.”. «New York Times, Jul 15»
8
Jessica Ford
Feminist and Postfeminist Discourses: Reading the Britta Problem, A Sense of Community: Essays on the Television Series & its Fandom. «The Conversation AU, Jun 15»
9
CBS's Supergirl Announces Official Premiere Date
... Kara Danvers, and the tone seemed sufficiently lighthearted and self-aware, but it also left a bad postfeminist taste in our mouths (not helped ... «Outer Places, Jun 15»
10
Let the Face Speak for Itself: Hard Features in 'The White Buffalo'
... that distinguishes her from a Claudette Colbert or Myrna Loy and that rebuts our present syndrome of painted postfeminist affectation. «PopMatters, May 15»

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