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  • noun A supporter of Fourierism.

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Fourier +‎ -ist

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  • A Fourierist was a follower of Charles Fourier, the French utopian socialist and philosopher who is credited with coining the term “féminisme” in 1837 and advocated for the social and political liberties of women.

    Unpacking Feminist Content in Lilly Martin Spencer’s “War Spirit at Home” « Gender Across Borders 2009

  • Meeker, still saturated with Fourierist ideals, took up the challenge of making the horse-loving warrior-hunter Utes into happy farmers.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Meeker, still saturated with Fourierist ideals, took up the challenge of making the horse-loving warrior-hunter Utes into happy farmers.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Meeker, still saturated with Fourierist ideals, took up the challenge of making the horse-loving warrior-hunter Utes into happy farmers.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Meeker, still saturated with Fourierist ideals, took up the challenge of making the horse-loving warrior-hunter Utes into happy farmers.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • It may just be that my sensibilities have been deadened by too many Guy Davenport stories of Fourierist utopia, but the images of children scampering around in their underwear in Innocence did not seem to me fetishistic or otherwise problematic because they seemed to be expected within the givens of the society depicted in the film -- indeed, I was surprised the children weren't naked.

    Innocence 2010

  • Spencer was highly encouraged to pursue the life of an artist by her French émigré parents, and in particular by her mother, a Fourierist.

    Unpacking Feminist Content in Lilly Martin Spencer’s “War Spirit at Home” « Gender Across Borders 2009

  • Virginsky is a universal humanity man, Liputin is a Fourierist with a marked inclination for police work; a man, I assure you, who is precious from one point of view, though he requires strict supervision in all others; and, last of all, that fellow with the long ears, he'll read an account of his own system.

    The Possessed 2003

  • Nikolay wondered, recalling sometimes the unlooked-for Fourierist.

    The Possessed 2003

  • He tried to make a little money by writing articles on the political situation for the New York Tribune, whose editor, Charles A. Dana, was a Fourierist and not averse to a few slaps at European politics.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

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