OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 16116

feminism

/ˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)m/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
feminismo
A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). Alongside and often overlapping with older-identified distinctions between liberal, socialist, radical and cultural femini…
Women are still forbidden to smoke there... Ardent though we are in feminism, we applaud this stand...
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