单词 | first-wave |
释义 | first-waveadj. Designating the first in a succession of related events, phases, movements, or groups of people; of or relating to such a phase, event, etc. ΚΠ 1930 Sci. Monthly Apr. 354/1 A first-wave specific attack, followed by a second-wave non-specific ‘mop-up’. 1958 R. Wheatley Operation Sea Lion v. 115 Training of the first-wave divisions had started even before detailed instructions were issued. 1985 Polit. Theory 13 19 These first-wave thinkers considered the bureaucratic state, capitalism, and the patriarchal family to be three sides of an iron triangle of women's oppression. 2006 N. M. Vo Vietnamese Boat People ix. 128 The first-wave refugees were more educated, spoke more than one language, and were better off than the second or third wave refugees. Compounds first-wave feminism n. (within the women's liberation or feminist movement) a period of activity during the 19th and early 20th centuries, characterized by advocacy of equality between the sexes and the organized struggle to secure fundamental political, economic, and social rights for women, esp. the right to vote, to access the professions, and to own property; the movement associated with this period of activity. ΚΠ 1974 Austral. Q. Mar. 15 Comparing first wave feminism, which culminated in the suffragist struggle, with our own wave, we may discover how far ideologies have accelerated social change. 1985 J. Donovan Feminist Theory ii. 59 Most feminists and historians have come to regard 1920 as the end of ‘first wave’ feminism. 2013 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 5 May First-wave feminism—Mary Wollstonecraft through Millicent Fawcett and on to the Pankhursts and Marie Stopes—concentrated on..disparities in education, voting and reproductive rights. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1930 |
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