Definitions
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- noun Any of a wide range of
theories , some of which argue thatfeminism is no longer relevant to today's society or that feminism needs to be extended to fit the changing expectations and experiences of women since feminism's inception.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Isn't that, in a sense, the new feminism, often referred to as postfeminism, as though the old feminism were somehow obsolete?
Enchanted Theodora Goss 2008
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Unhappily, most of the new shows with women in leading roles—NBC's poorly scripted resurrection of the British hit "Prime Suspect," or ABC's inane remake of "Charlie's Angels," for example—offer little more than overcompensating caricatures of the fairer sex in an era of stiletto-heeled "postfeminism."
A Marriage of Heaven and Hollywood Michael Judge 2011
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You will be born in an America of many posts: post–civil rights, postfeminism, post–cold war.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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You will be born in an America of many posts: post–civil rights, postfeminism, post–cold war.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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You will be born in an America of many posts: post–civil rights, postfeminism, post–cold war.
Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010
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I like Flanagan okay -- postfeminism is, um, the life I am living.
"I don't think I'm going to be bored enough today to read four pages of that..." Ann Althouse 2008
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When a reviewer works as hard as Mr. Hayford has, in this case, to lecture the readers on postfeminism and "the anti-intellectual instincts" of the performers -- not to mention his
Chicago Reader 2010
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What do postfeminism and postracialism have to do with liberation and freedom?
unknown title 2009
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What do postfeminism and postracialism have to do with liberation and freedom?
unknown title 2009
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They come in and think they're gonna change the face of postfeminism.
Heeb HQ RSS 2009
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