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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • This virulent antifeminism paradoxically gives rise to a discourse of female liberation.

    Sex. 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • These are perfectly rational questions, not mere hysteria or antifeminism.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • An evangelical agnostic, Linton tends to be amusingly (or at least assertively) grouchy (although her antifeminism can make modern readers similarly grouchy...)

    Readable 2007

  • An evangelical agnostic, Linton tends to be amusingly (or at least assertively) grouchy (although her antifeminism can make modern readers similarly grouchy...)

    The Little Professor: 2007

  • 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

  • “Lying about rape” in the lexicon of antifeminism means “falsely claiming to have been raped”.

    Anatomy Of A False Rape Accusation Comment - Part 2 2006

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