victim feminism (uncountable)
- (derogatory) A form of feminism predicated on the idea that women are weak or lack agency and therefore need to be protected.
- Coordinate term: power feminism
2005, Drude von der Fehr, Anna Jonasdottir, Bente Rosenbeck, Is There A Nordic Feminism?, page 216:In the field of sexuality, victim feminism is anti-sexual whereas power feminism believes that what every woman does with her body and in her bed is her own business.
2007, Alyson Manda Cole, The Cult of True Victimhood, page 50:Wolf offers a long list of attributes of victim feminism that she detects in a host of feminist activities, institutions, and texts.
2014, Rebecca Stringer, Knowing Victims, page 33:[…] in the service of new narratives in which victim feminism is presented not just as obsolete or wrong-minded, but as perniciously victimizing.