Adjective : a postfeminist household in which both partners share all tasks equally. ,postfeminist thinking about motherhood and careers. From Dictionary.com.
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. From Wordnik.com. [Feministe] Reference
In postfeminist America, men are happier than women. From Wordnik.com. [Caryl Rivers: How the Media Peddle the Myth of the Miserable Woman] Reference
The novel admirably eschews gush and wallpaper -- in a postfeminist way. From Wordnik.com. [The Search: Summary and book reviews of The Search by Iris Johansen.] Reference
In the postfeminist era, the teens are also more than ready to flaunt their looks. From Wordnik.com. [The Teen Queens] Reference
As early as 1990, influential postfeminist punkers were analyzing female adolescence. From Wordnik.com. [The Cult Of Cute] Reference
As I was the only person in the office, I received the entirety of her postfeminist critique. From Wordnik.com. [Microserfs]
I found her last week in Philadelphia, where she was promoting her new book of postfeminist musing, "A Woman's Worth.". From Wordnik.com. [I Feel Better Already] Reference
A proponent of postfeminist courtship, Carolyn was a Rules girl who would never have been caught reading the actual book. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Princess] Reference
But this is my fave quote: It's self-deceptive to think we're in a postfeminist world when we never tried a feminist world. From Wordnik.com. [Feministing: October 2005 Archives] Reference
And twenty-four-year-old Obama supporter Rebecca Wiegand told me in 2008, Going into the election I felt very postfeminist. From Wordnik.com. [Big Girls Don’t Cry] Reference
Speculation has been that this study confirms what most of my friends and I experience as the current state of postfeminist feminism. From Wordnik.com. [Annabelle Gurwitch: I Hate Happiness] Reference
"My Harvard friends thought it was great, and my feminist women friends are more postfeminist; they thought it empowering in a strange way," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Onion and Conan: A Pairing for the Century] Reference
Virginity even offers its own post-postfeminist twist: the girls everyone is rushing to protect may actually turn out tougher and more self-reliant than their mothers. From Wordnik.com. [Virgin Cool] Reference
What could she, a thirty-year-old American history professor brought up in the postfeminist age, possibly have in common with a Southern belle from a previous century?. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunting]
Sarah Palin has been labeled a postfeminist as well. From Wordnik.com. [FrontPage Magazine] Reference
Which begs the question: Just who or what is a postfeminist?. From Wordnik.com. [FrontPage Magazine] Reference
A new generation of postfeminist sexologists is trying to discover what ignites female desire. From Wordnik.com. [Feministe] Reference
We are entering an era of postfeminist women, women who, without bargaining, are ready to kill the political men. From Wordnik.com. [E-nough!] Reference
Love in the Time of Darwinism: A report from the chaotic postfeminist dating scene, where only the strong survive. From Wordnik.com. [bookforum.com] Reference
Cathy's stance was more postfeminist - common but certainly not universal among women of her era or those that followed. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
There to give voice to that generation of proto-postfeminist young women looking to navigate this new society was "Cathy.". From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
"I think we live in ... a postfeminist world, where the intricacies of male and female power are much more relevant," DuPrey said. From Wordnik.com. [UCLA Stories] Reference
I don’t think the world is as postfeminist as I was feeling that it was. From Wordnik.com. [Big Girls Don’t Cry] Reference
“postfeminist” is now in use for a subsequent generation of artists who pursue some of the ideas and interests of the earlier period. From Wordnik.com. [Feminist Aesthetics] Reference
Ally is the quintessential postfeminist. From Wordnik.com. [How Would Ally Do It?] Reference
I Enjoy Being a Girl, "" a showstopper ripe for postfeminist revival, "from Universal. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
The ability to make choices, says the author, "is one of the benefits of living in a postfeminist Western democracy. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Link postfeminist. From Wordnik.com. [Mental health of women in crisis] Reference
That's not postfeminist. From Wordnik.com. [Still Needing The F Word] Reference
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