resulting from or including the beliefs and ideas of feminism
2.
differing from or showing moderation of these beliefs and ideas
noun
3.
a person who believes in or advocates any of the ideas that have developed from the feminist movement
postfeminist in American English
(poustˈfemənɪst)
adjective
1.
pertaining to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s
2.
resulting from or incorporating the ideology of this movement
a postfeminist household in which both partners share all tasks equally
3.
differing from or reflecting moderation of this ideology
postfeminist thinking about motherhood and careers
noun
4.
a person who believes in, promotes, or embodies any of various ideologies springing from the feminism of the 1970s
Derived forms
postfeminism
noun
Word origin
[1980–85; post- + feminist]This word is first recorded in the period 1980–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: NIMBY, nuclear winter, off-price, scientific creationism, starch blockerpost- is a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,”occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital)
Examples of 'postfeminist' in a sentence
postfeminist
So long, myths of a post-racial, postfeminist, post-class-structure society.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But done in an ironic, postfeminist, rebooted way.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Of course, after decades of postfeminist indoctrination, men aren't meant to be this way.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The more you watch, the more you think, is this the postfeminist icon we've been waiting for?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
I like to call her almost a postfeminist character, defining her own ways of behaving.