How to Use feminism in a Sentence

feminism

noun
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  • But these are the fields on which the grassroots of feminism were fought.
    — Sarah Gristwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • That was a part of my lesbian, punk-rock feminism in my 20s.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2020
  • For her creators to give her Larry David footwear in the name of feminism?
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Shelly, having lived that life, is more open to the aspects of feminism that weren’t talked about.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Now there’s a gift that second-wave feminism failed to give.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2021
  • Lara and Lia met online in 2009, in the field of lesbian feminism activism.
    — Francesca Marani, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The best way for feminism to counter it is to reckon with what the human mind is capable of.
    — Lauren Markham, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • A year ago, Arielle Gray set to work on her love letter to Black feminism: a citywide poster project.
    — Natachi Onwuamaegbu, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Jan. 2021
  • The big tracksuit can be hot and can also be a very current kind of feminism.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2020
  • That is, there is a feminism that can be made small enough for Amy Coney Barrett, and for women like her.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2020
  • But there may have been occasions when the queen has tried, in her own queenly way, to score a point for feminism.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The past several years have not been good for feminism and gender rights in Hong Kong.
    — Jessie Lau For Cnn, CNN, 5 May 2022
  • She was also seen as flouting some of the tenets of second-wave feminism.
    — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The novelist looks back at a life of feminism and reflects on the needs of modern women.
    — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • But new research shows that feminism doesn’t make the cut in their progressive views.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
  • This was before the days of feminism in the Black community.
    — Gayle Fleming, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Pelosi rose through the ranks in an era of shoulder-padded feminism, when women broke the glass ceiling by playing a man’s game in a man’s world.
    — Kara Voght, The New Republic, 2 Jan. 2023
  • From the book’s adult nods to its wannabe young girl’s guide to feminism, the show entertains moment by moment but rarely adds up.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The tides of feminism and witchcraft have always been tightly linked.
    — Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Or the pink Bic pens marketed as a bold leap forward for feminism?
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • Among those critics was author Sesali Bowen, who coined the concept of trap feminism years ago.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • There was a real lens of feminism that was established in these books ...
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The song’s lyrics called on the religious saints to embrace feminism and to drive the Russian dictator away from their lives.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Gone, too, is bell hooks, the writer who shaped discussions about race, feminism and class.
    — Eliza Fawcett, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • People often write about you and your work — certainly over the last few years — through the framework of feminism.
    — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2021
  • It has been cited in academia and used in college courses on feminism and pop culture.
    — Essence, 23 Apr. 2021
  • There is surely an audience for this kind of feel-good quote-un-quote feminism.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2022
  • With the second wave feminism of the mid-20th century came a reclamation of the word witch as a term of pride and empowerment.
    — Jessica Iredale, Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
  • As second-wave feminism reshaped the nation in the 1960s, a new science-fiction twist to steed-and-rider imagery raised the stakes of women’s bonds with beasts by seating them on dragons.
    — Rebecca Scofield / Made By History, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025
  • My first book was a set of case studies based on interviews with single women in their thirties, a half generation ahead of me, the advance guard of feminism’s second wave.
    — Megan Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025

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