Feminationalism

Quick meaning: Feminationalism is a noun meaning (neologism) The association between a nationalist ideology and some feminist ideas, specially when having xenophobic motivations.

Meaning

(neologism) The association between a nationalist ideology and some feminist ideas, specially when having xenophobic motivations.

Example Sentences

I claim that women were closely engaged in combining the feminized body with national politics, a feminationalism.

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez also introduced the notion of a “post-’Fifty Shades of Grey’ patriarchal heterosexuality” which combines feminationalism, homonationalism, white supremacist notions, ideas of eurocentric superiority and erotic capitalism.

In countries such as Denmark and Italy, xenophobic campaigns have taken on the form of ‘feminationalist’ rhetoric which claims that migration is undermining the rights and freedoms of the women in the destination countries. The discourse of ‘feminationalism’ is closely related to homonationalism in which the xenophobic right is claiming that migration is a threat to the rights of the LBGT community.

We now see a kind of racism that argues that Christian/Western values are civilized and a basis for democracy, while ’their’ values are reactionary and undemocratic. In the same way, femonationalism and homonationalism have evolved, where it is claimed that the oppression of women and LGBT people only exists amongst ’foreigners’ (the muslims). Feminationalism does not imply a common struggle for freedom, but sees the state as a protector of ’poor’ women from ’foreign’ men.

Word Forms

• femonationalism

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include homonationalism, heteronationalism, masculinism, gynocentrism, feminocentrism, masculism.

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