femaleist
English edit
Etymology edit
female + -ist coined in 1999 by Barbara Ehrenreich.
Noun edit
femaleist (plural femaleists)
- One who acknowledges and celebrates the ways in which women are different from men (in addition to the obvious difference in reproductive organs).
- 1999 March 1, Barbara Ehrenreich, “The Real Truth About The Female Body”, in Time:
- The femaleist premise could be summarized as: Yes, we are different—wanna make something of it?
- 1999 April 4, Joan Ryan, “Men, Women, Apples and Oranges”, in The San Francisco Chronicle:
- “What my book does, I think, is say, Let’s look at ourselves and not feel defensive,”’ says Mill Valley writer Dianne Hale, author of “Just Like a Woman: How Gender Science Is Redefining What Makes Us Female” (Bantam), published last month. Hale and the authors of the two similar books have been described as “femaleists” rather than feminists.
- 2000, Diane Passno, Feminism: Mystique Or Mistake?, →ISBN:
- The ad industry portrayed the role reversal that feminists have coveted for the past twenty years . . . the femaleist party line that women are more "manly" than men could ever hope to be!
- 2003, Roger N. Lancaster, The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture, →ISBN:
- Even in her critique of evolutionary psychology — a book heralded by Barbara Ehrenreich as the "chief manifesto of the new 'femaleist' thinking" — Natalie Angier expresses just this sort of impatience with perspectives from the usual critics of bioreductivism (feminists, progressives, and perhaps especially social scientists).
- 2006, Christopher Mark O'Brien, Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World, →ISBN:
- I am a “femaleist.”I think that beer, when at its best, empowers women.