Noun

(en noun)

Support for male domination of women, for patriarchy; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism.

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, year = 1971 , title = (The First Sex) , first = Elizabeth Gould , last = Davis , authorlink = Elizabeth Gould Davis , location = New York , publisher = G. P. Putnam's Sons , section = ch. 22 , passage = The ages of masculism are now drawing to a close. Their dying days are lit up by a final flare of universal violence and despair such as the world has seldom before seen. }}

* 1983 , Sheila Ruth, quoted in Judith Evans (1986), Feminism and Political Theory [http://books.google.com/books?id=094_AAAAMAAJ], ISBN 0803997051, page 70:

Fascism, fully revealed, is the extreme, exquisite expression of masculism , of patriarchy, and thus the natural enemy of feminism, its quintessential opposite.

* 2003 , Punishment and Social Control , second edition (Thomas G. Blomberg, Stanley Cohen, ISBN 0202307018), page 125:

As Brittan (1989:4) has succinctly put it, "the ideology that justifies and naturalizes male domination" is "masculism'." And '''masculism''' is already antisocial because ' masculism as an ideology universalizes "man" as the "maker" of history.

* 2009 , Judith A. Allen, The feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: sexualities, histories, progressivism , page 152:

Titling a 1914 public lecture series at New York's Astor Hotel, “Studies in Masculism ,” she complained that the printer objected to the word and attempted to change it.

Despite an unfriendly press, she specially targeted "masculist" authors and purveyors of negative views of women.

Sexism in favor of men.

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, year = 1980 , month = February , title = Issues in Feminism: A First Course in Women's Studies , first = Sheila , last = Ruth , publisher = Houghton Mifflin , isbn = 9780395286913 , ol = 7465927M , page = 7 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=cHTtIs1BjxAC&pg=PA7&dq=masculism , passage = Masculism''''', the form of sexism practiced in our culture, has many facets, and we shall explore them in Chapter 2. Here we need only say that ' masculism is in part the mistaking of male perspectives, beliefs, attitudes, standards, values, and perceptions for all human perceptions. }}

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, date = 1997-06-25 , chapter = In my father's house are many mansions , first = Nalini , last = Persram , title = Black British Feminism: A Reader , isbn = 9780415152884 , ol = 7484411M , page = 213 , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=GdSqaz6NBMIC&pg=PA213&dq=masculisms , passage = It often takes a crisis of some sort to initiate the difficult but empowering feminist process of renegotiating the masculisms that dominate the discourses of origin, authenticity and belonging in a way that transforms margins into frontiers, lack into (ad)vantage. }}

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, year = 2001 , title = Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from the 1880s to the Year 2000 , first = James , last = Belich , publisher = University of Hawaii Press , isbn = 9780824825423 , ol = 8161673M , page = 508 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=1OJtbKIp2AYC&pg=PA508&dq=masculism , passage = Residual masculism remained quite powerful, and does so to this day. At school, boys continue to command more playground space and teacher attention than do girls. }}

Noun

(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.

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, 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... }}

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, 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. }}