parafeminism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From para- + feminism, coined by Amelia Jones.
Noun
[edit]parafeminism (uncountable)
- A variety of feminism that seeks to better the conditions of women but considers men and women to be fundamentally different.
- 2013, Michael Trask, Camp Sites: Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar America, page 201:
- Parafeminism encourages women to become equal to men by becoming more pleasing to them.
- 2017, Alexandra M. Kokoli, The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice, page 61:
- Understanding gender 'as a question rather than an answer', contextual, nonprescriptive and inherently intersectional, parafeminism sheds 'some of the closures and limitations' of the second wave […]