Frommasculine +-ism, as opposed tofeminism.
masculinism (usuallyuncountable,pluralmasculinisms)
- An ideology ofmasculinity or of male rights; considered as opposed tofeminism.
1981 August 15, Cliff Flanders, “Anti-Masculinists”, inGay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 4:While only women can participate in the building of a feminist culture, without the interference — however well-intentioned — of men, men can facilitate that process by refusing to participate in the old order ofmasculinism.
- 1996, Peggy Watson, "The Rise ofMasculinism in Eastern Europe", chapter 6 of Monica Threlfall (editor),Mapping the Women’s Movement, Verso,→ISBN,page 216:
- […] the transition to liberal capitalism offers men the opportunity of putting a greatly increased socialdistance between themselves and women. It is the rise ofmasculinism which is the primary characteristic of gender relations in Eastern Europe today.
2001, Jonathan Franzen,The Corrections:[…] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory ofMasculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies:[…]
2002, Stephen M. Whitehead,Men and Masculinities, Wiley-Blackwell,→ISBN,page115:Each is laden with assumptions and appropriations that, in discursive terms, reinforce a culture ofmasculinism – the cultural dominance of the male (in the public sphere).
- 2007, Satoshi Ikedia, “Masculinity andmasculinism under globalization: Reflections on the Canadian case”, chapter 6 of Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Janine Brodie (editors),Remapping Gender in the New Global Order, Routledge,→ISBN,page 112:
- However, it is possible to examine the broader historical contours ofmasculinism – the ideology that justifies male domination – and the masculinist institutions that endorsemasculinism […]
- Mannishness.
1927, Havelock Ellis,Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)[1]:The greater part of these various anatomical peculiarities and functional anomalies point, more or less clearly, to the prevalence among inverts of a tendency to infantilism, combined with feminism in men andmasculinism in women
