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womanifesto

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Etymology

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Blend of woman +‎ manifesto

Noun

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womanifesto (plural womanifestos or womanifestoes)

  1. (rare, feminism) A feminist manifesto.
    • 2002, Elaine Showalter, Inventing Herself, page 28:
      Two centuries later, feminist literary critics analyzed these feminist polemics, or womanifestos, as texts that embody a struggle between reason and emotion.
    • 1992, Contemporary American Voices, page 316:
      On that date, whatever else we demonstrate, let us not fear to demonstrate by our presentation of womanifestos everywhere that feminism has universal potential and imperatives.