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- noun Opposition to one, or more, or all forms of
feminism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women
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Examples
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The male Swiss organizer of what is being promoted as a first global antifeminism meeting in October expressed concern about having so many women in government.
Swiss Women Claim Majority Seats In Cabinet For First Time 2010
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Quiverfull's pronatalist emphasis is linked to a companion doctrine of strident antifeminism among conservative Christians who see the women's liberation movement as the origin of a host of social ills, from abortion to divorce, women working and teen sex.
Extreme Motherhood 2009
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This virulent antifeminism paradoxically gives rise to a discourse of female liberation.
Sex. 2009
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She of course taught it as a Feminist Philosophy course, and had to endure student complaints that she wasn't teaching "the other side," as in antifeminism.
Is Women's Studies Being Made Irrelevant? Anxious Black Woman 2008
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First, there are the Christian fundamentalists or "values voters" as it pleases them to call themselves, whose bedrock principles are theocracy, antifeminism, and homophobia.
Archive 2007-10-01 Johnny Pez 2007
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These are perfectly rational questions, not mere hysteria or antifeminism.
Archive 2007-06-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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An evangelical agnostic, Linton tends to be amusingly (or at least assertively) grouchy (although her antifeminism can make modern readers similarly grouchy...)
Readable 2007
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An evangelical agnostic, Linton tends to be amusingly (or at least assertively) grouchy (although her antifeminism can make modern readers similarly grouchy...)
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First, there are the Christian fundamentalists or "values voters" as it pleases them to call themselves, whose bedrock principles are theocracy, antifeminism, and homophobia.
Breaking the Elephant Johnny Pez 2007
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“Lying about rape” in the lexicon of antifeminism means “falsely claiming to have been raped”.
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