Femininism
The term femininism (also capitalized as Femininism) is related to the adjective feminine. The concept originates as far bath as the 19th century. It is a philosophy of elevating and attempting to live by traits or virtues stereotypically associated with femininity.
Not to be confused with the similar-sounding feminism. Unlike masculism and masculism which are more commonly used interchangeably, this has a distinct meaning associated with gender differences rather than gender equalities. Though it does have historical usage of being used to mean feminism too.
References
- ^ 1896: Natural Science - Volume 9 - Page 154 "The subject of infantlism, femininism, and the hermaphrodites of antiquity, has been carefully studied by Mr. Henry Meirge in l'Anthropologie for 1895. He came to the conclusion that "there exist in nature several bodily conformations in which the morphological characters of the male are associated in the same individual with those of the female." Page 155 "Similarly he finds femininism may be transient or lasting."
- ^ 1899: The Contemporary Review - Volume 76 - Page 824 "girls worked indirectly, and were careful not to hoist the flag of femininism. They held to the motto of Erminia Fus Fusinato, a poetess and the foundress of several educational institutions: "In my opinion the emancipation of woman means emancipation from want and ignorance." Page 830 "The Italian workwoman, thanks to her native cleverness and intelligence, might become a powerful ally for the cause of femininism. The leaders of the movement understand this, and lose no opportunity..." Page 831 "It is true that the "New Woman" in Italy is relatively prudent and abstains from vapouring against the marriage bond. It is also true that there are among the leaders of the movement some able individuals. But new ideas inevitably attract to themselves the discontented, the eccentric, the anarchic, those seeking an outlet. One of the apostles of French femininism, M. Jules..."
- ^ The Economic Dependence of Women by Vernon Lee from The North American Review, Vol. 175, No. 548 (Jul., 1902), pp. 71-90 (Page 72) "it does not quire the generalizing genius of Dr. Nordau, clapping Tolstoy and Ibsen into his specimen-box of "Degenerates," to tell us that the Woman Question, Femininism, is likely to be taken up by those disconnected and disjointed personalities who are attracted by every other kind of thing in ism; whose power consists a little in their very inferiority; and whose abnormal and often morbid "pleasure in saying 'no'" (as Nietzsche puts it) is, after all, alas! so very necessary in this world of quite normally stupid and normally selfish and normally virtuous "pleasure in saying 'yes'"
- ^ A BRIEF HISTORY OF EARLY CHINESE PHILOSOPHY. ETHICS by D. Teitaro Suzuki from The Monist, Vol. 18, No. 2 (APRIL, 1908), pp. 242-285 (Page 260) "The doctrine of Wu Wei is in its passivity the ethics of femininism. It teaches submissive humiliation, moderation, meekness, and often nonchalance; though, according to Lao-tze, these things are not prized for their intrinsic virtue, but as the means of attaining the end of self-preservation or self-affirmation."
- ^ Recent Literature from American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Jan., 1909), pp. 553-576 (Page 570) "Lightbody, W.M. Femininism in Politics. Westminster Rev. 170:409, Oct. '08"
- ^ Brief Mention by J. W. B., M. L. B., W. K. from Modern Language Notes, Vol. 33, No. 8 (Dec., 1918), pp. 506-512 (Page 511) "We might question, however, his suggested application of Greek ideals to modern problems of labor and "femininism." Versatile and practical as the Greeks were, they never arrived at any working solution of their own problems of manual labor and feminine activity in the state; and, failing in this, their political organism could not survive its first brilliant and hopeful promise in the oligarchical democracy of Athens."
- ^ Indoor Dress by Janet Duer, Vincent Collins from Art & Life, Vol. 11, No. 5 (Nov., 1919), pp. 282-287 (Page 283) "In such gowns every mark of femininism is emphasized that a woman may lay aside all indications of being one of a well-ordered number of women dressed for a certain occasion in a conventional manner, and become really herself."