victim feminism

noun

Definitions

  1. A form of feminism predicated on the idea that women are weak or lack agency and…

    A form of feminism predicated on the idea that women are weak or lack agency and therefore need to be protected.

    • 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.
    • Wolf offers a long list of attributes of victim feminism that she detects in a host of feminist activities, institutions, and texts.
    • […] in the service of new narratives in which victim feminism is presented not just as obsolete or wrong-minded, but as perniciously victimizing.

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