postfeminist

The impulse to declare social movements dead is as old as social movements themselves; the term postfeminist was used as early as 1919, a year before women gained the right to vote.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

The impulse to declare social movements dead is as old as social movements themselves; the term postfeminist was used as early as 1919, a year before women gained the right to vote.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

The impulse to declare social movements dead is as old as social movements themselves; the term postfeminist was used as early as 1919, a year before women gained the right to vote.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

The impulse to declare social movements dead is as old as social movements themselves; the term postfeminist was used as early as 1919, a year before women gained the right to vote.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

With full-time schedules, inflexible hours and only minimal help from their husbands, the exhilaration of having it all turned to exhaustion, and then to anger, a kind of postfeminist backlash among some of the women themselves.

Mommy Vs. Mommy 2008

It's not likely that the folks who make clothing with words on the bum consider such issues, of course, but if you're über-optimistic, you might give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they're making a kind of postfeminist effort to turn sexism on its, uh, rear.

Bum Rap 2008

I might have said I was a feminist before 1970, which is when I became pregnant and developed a long-term relationship with one of New York City's outpatient clinics, but secretly I was a premature "postfeminist," convinced that sexism was a problem chiefly for the oversensitive and underassertive.

Ms. Magazine Online 2009

In the writer's defense, you usually don't write your own headers or sub-heads, so I can't really blame him for the "postfeminist" thing.

Feministe 2009

In the writer's defense, you usually don't write your own headers or sub-heads, so I can't really blame him for the "postfeminist" thing.

feminist blogs 2009

I might have said I was a feminist before 1970, which is when I became pregnant and developed a long-term relationship with one of New York City's outpatient clinics, but secretly I was a premature "postfeminist," convinced that sexism was a problem chiefly for the oversensitive and underassertive.

Ms. Magazine Online 2009