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  • adjective Relating to or in accordance with masculinism.
  • noun An advocate of masculinism.

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Examples

  • Rather, it is based on a return to the text of the Quran, preening away centuries of what I'd call masculinist readings.

    Nicholas D. Kristof 2009

  • Rather, it is based on a return to the text of the Quran, preening away centuries of what I'd call masculinist readings.

    Nicholas D. Kristof 2009

  • Nevertheless, I would agree that there is a kind of masculinist politics at work in defending "tradition" and also in arguing that our work has a "science-ism" to it that makes us valuable to English departments.

    On Language Heo 2007

  • But the upper echelons of the business world are still dominated by males, and a 'masculinist' culture prevails.

    Feminist Philosophers 2009

  • Flagrant (that is too say, female, gay, primitive) pleasure is a dangerous and spontaneous force in a (still) masculinist society that dictates desire's boundaries, subjects, objects, normalcy, arenas of delight or prurience.

    ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2011

  • It's here that he rails for the umpteenth time against lesser critics who have dared to suggest that his boisterous, agonistic account of writerly influence might be weighted in favour of a certain masculinist tradition.

    The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review 2011

  • Mr. Wasley sums this up adroitly, noting "how many of the critical narratives of postwar American poetry" frame the period "in terms of competing camps of formalism versus experiment, establishment versus avant-garde, feminist or gay versus masculinist, West Coast versus East."

    Keeper of the Affirming Flame Brad Leithauser 2011

  • • Preening hereditary pundit Giles Coren has joined the Jeremy Clarkson-led backlash in defence of Sky Sport's martyred masculinist, Andy Gray.

    Michael White's diary 2011

  • Past form suggests a warmed-up fricassee of masculinist interventions and tellings-off for "political correctness", though it could prove to be more nuanced and nourishing.

    London's missing dimension – serenity | Dave Hill 2011

  • Flagrant (that is too say, female, gay, primitive) pleasure is a dangerous and spontaneous force in a (still) masculinist society that dictates desire's boundaries, subjects, objects, normalcy, arenas of delight or prurience.

    ArtScene: Southern California's Top Ten Exhibition Picks for 2010 ArtScene 2011

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