femonationalism
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editCoined by Sara R. Farris. Blend of feminism + nationalism, with the "o" patterned after homonationalism.
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editfemonationalism (usually uncountable, plural femonationalisms)
- (neologism) The association of a nationalist ideology with feminism, especially when having xenophobic motivations.
- 2012, Sara R. Farris, "Femonationalism and the 'Regular' Army of Labor Called Migrant Women", History of the Present, Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2012, page 187:
- In similar ways, femonationalism describes the attempts of European right-wing parties, among others, to co-opt feminist ideals into anti-immigrant and anti-Islam campaigns.
- 2017, Edna Bonhomme, "The Disturbing Rise of ‘Femonationalism", The Nation, 7 May 2019:
- Femonationalism thus operates from a place of cynicism, presenting itself as liberating Muslim women while doing the exact opposite.
- 2020 July, Dina Bader, Véronique Mottier, “Femonationalism and populist politics: The case of the Swiss ban on female genital mutilation”, in Nations and Nationalism, volume 26, number 3:
- The case of Switzerland is of particular interest to furthering the understanding of femonationalism, we argue, because contrary to the case studies presented by these other authors, Switzerland was never a colonial state.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:femonationalism.
- 2012, Sara R. Farris, "Femonationalism and the 'Regular' Army of Labor Called Migrant Women", History of the Present, Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2012, page 187:
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