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  • noun Plural form of nonfeminist.

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  • Freeing women from sexual restraint and ensuring their access to abortion, of course, are causes hailed in barracks, frat houses and other places where nonfeminists gather, but Ms. Pitzulo is not one to make such observations.

    The Feminist Mystique of Hugh Hefner Dave Shiflett 2011

  • Echidne once wrote a great post in which she addresses a particular frustration of active feminists: Feminists are somehow the unpaid cleaning crew … who is supposed to turn up after dark and fix the world so that the attractive nonfeminists can live in it comfortably.

    Get a Life 2007

  • Echidne once wrote a great post in which she addresses a particular frustration of active feminists: Feminists are somehow the unpaid cleaning crew … who is supposed to turn up after dark and fix the world so that the attractive nonfeminists can live in it comfortably.

    Get a Life 2007

  • Many central dogmas have been undermined, and nonfeminists and feminists alike have “naturalized,” “socialized,” and otherwise modulated the earlier, more abstract and highly normative enterprises and doctrines.

    Analytic Feminism Garry, Ann 2004

  • Gilliganism addresses the anxiety that is provoked by that attitude — the anxiety about compromising their sexuality which many feminists share with nonfeminists.

    Feminism's Identity Crisis 1993

  • Gilliganism addresses the anxiety that is provoked by that attitude — the anxiety about compromising their sexuality which many feminists share with nonfeminists.

    Feminism's Identity Crisis 1993

  • Feminists and nonfeminists alike, these newsmakers made us sit up and take note, whether we agreed with their actions or not.

    Ms. Magazine Online 2009

  • Though the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 noted and deplored the silence about women in the Declaration of Independence and though nonfeminists have worked toward removing sexism from English, most current activity stems from the women's movement that began in the 1960s.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2 1984

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