femonationalism

English

Alternative forms

• feminationalism

Etymology

Coined by Sara R. Farris. Blend of feminism +‎ nationalism, with the "o" patterned after homonationalism.

Noun

femonationalism (usually uncountable, plural femonationalisms)

1. (neologism) The association of a nationalist ideology with feminism, especially when having xenophobic motivations.
   • 2012, Sara R. Farris, "Femonationalism and the 'Regular' Army of Labor Called Migrant Women", History of the Present, Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2012, page 187:

     In similar ways, femonationalism describes the attempts of European right-wing parties, among others, to co-opt feminist ideals into anti-immigrant and anti-Islam campaigns.

   • 2017, Edna Bonhomme, "The Disturbing Rise of ‘Femonationalism", The Nation, 7 May 2019:

     Femonationalism thus operates from a place of cynicism, presenting itself as liberating Muslim women while doing the exact opposite.

   • 2020 July, Dina Bader, Véronique Mottier, “Femonationalism and populist politics: The case of the Swiss ban on female genital mutilation”, in Nations and Nationalism, volume 26, number 3:

     The case of Switzerland is of particular interest to furthering the understanding of femonationalism, we argue, because contrary to the case studies presented by these other authors, Switzerland was never a colonial state.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:femonationalism.

Related terms

• femonationalist

Translations

Translations

• Catalan: femonacionalisme m
• Dutch: femonationalisme n
• French: fémonationalisme (fr) m
• German: Femonationalismus (de) m
• Greek: φεμοεθνικισμός m (femoethnikismós)
• Italian: femonazionalismo m
• Portuguese: femonacionalismo m
• Russian: фемонационализм (femonacionalizm)
• Spanish: femonacionalismo (es) m

See also

• purplewashing