postfeminist
English
Etymology
post- + feminist
Adjective
postfeminist (comparative more postfeminist, superlative most postfeminist)
- Pertaining to postfeminism.
- 2013, Lynn Huffer, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory
- This has meant also a postfeminist, postqueer shift toward a different Foucault than the one we were obsessed with in the 1980s and nineties. If we still use him, it is usually for purposes other than sex: the rethinking of race, sovereignty, religion, and nation.
- 2013, Lynn Huffer, Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory
Noun
postfeminist (plural postfeminists)
- One who belongs to the postfeminism movement.
- 2009 February 8, “What Do Women Want?”, in New York Times:
- But to call a group of researchers postfeminist without exploring what exactly that means belittles both feminists and postfeminists alike.
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