Feminism vs Cancer - What's the difference?
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(dated) The state of being feminine.
A social theory or political movement arguing that legal and social restrictions on females must be removed in order to bring about equality of both sexes in all aspects of public and private life.
* {{quote-magazine
, date = 1926-11-27
, title = The Talk of the Town
, magazine = The New Yorker
, issn = 0028-792X
, page = 17
, passage = Women are still forbidden to smoke there... Ardent though we are in feminism , we applaud this stand...
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1996
, author = Jan Jindy Pettman
, title = Worlding Women: A feminist international politics
, pages = ix-x
, passage = There are by now many feminisms' (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). Alongside and often overlapping with older-identified distinctions between liberal, socialist, radical and cultural '''feminisms''', for example (important as they are in their different accounts of sexual difference and gender power), are variously named black, third-world ethnic-minority ' feminisms , themselves far from homogenous.
}}
(medicine, oncology, disease) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=1 * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (figuratively) Something which spreads within something else, damaging the latter.
As nouns the difference between feminism and cancer
is that feminism is (dated) the state of being feminine while cancer is cancer.feminism
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(wikipedia feminism)Noun
Antonyms
* antifeminism * masculismDerived terms
* cyberfeminism * ecofeminism * feminazi * feminist * feministic * first-wave feminism * fourth-wave feminism * postfeminism * profeminism * second-wave feminism * third-wave feminismSee also
* egalitarianism, equalism , Wicca English words suffixed with -ismcancer
English
* (wikipedia "cancer")Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
- {{quote-book, year=1999, author=Bruce Clifford Ross-Larson, title=Effective Writing, page=134
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