different between masculinism vs masculism

English

Etymology

From masculine +? -ism, as opposed to feminism.

Noun

masculinism (usually uncountable, plural masculinisms)

1. An ideology of masculinity or of male rights; especially an ideology opposed to feminism.
   • 1996, Peggy Watson, "The Rise of Masculinism in Eastern Europe", chapter 6 of Monica Threlfall (editor), Mapping the Women’s Movement, Verso, ?ISBN, page 216:

     […] the transition to liberal capitalism offers men the opportunity of putting a greatly increased social distance between themselves and women. It is the rise of masculinism which is the primary characteristic of gender relations in Eastern Europe today.

   • 2002, Stephen M. Whitehead, Men and Masculinities, Wiley-Blackwell, ?ISBN, page 115:

     Each is laden with assumptions and appropriations that, in discursive terms, reinforce a culture of masculinism – the cultural dominance of the male (in the public sphere).

   • 2007, Satoshi Ikedia, “Masculinity and masculinism under globalization: Reflections on the Canadian case”, chapter 6 of Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Janine Brodie (editors), Remapping Gender in the New Global Order, Routledge, ?ISBN, page 112:

     However, it is possible to examine the broader historical contours of masculinism – the ideology that justifies male domination – and the masculinist institutions that endorse masculinism […]

2. Mannishness

Synonyms

• masculism

Related terms

• masculinist

Translations

See also

• feminism, feminist, egalitarianism, equalism.

English

Etymology

From mascul(ine) +? -ism, as opposed to feminism.

Noun

masculism (usually uncountable, plural masculisms)

1. Advocacy of men's rights.
   • 1927, Harper's Magazine, volume 153:

     […] proposing the development of a counter corrective movement to be called "Masculism" — lady, I thank thee for that word! — a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men.

     […]

     In his plea for masculism John Macy defies the champions of present-day feminism.
2. Support for patriarchy / male domination of women; opposition to equality for women; anti-feminism.
   • 1983, Sheila Ruth, quoted in Judith Evans (1986), Feminism and Political Theory [2], ?ISBN, page 70:

     Fascism, fully revealed, is the extreme, exquisite expression of masculism, of patriarchy, and thus the natural enemy of feminism, its quintessential opposite.

   • 2003, Punishment and Social Control, second edition (Thomas G. Blomberg, Stanley Cohen, ?ISBN, page 125:

     As Brittan (1989:4) has succinctly put it, "the ideology that justifies and naturalizes male domination" is "masculism." And masculism is already antisocial because masculism as an ideology universalizes "man" as the "maker" of history.

   • 2009, Judith A. Allen, The feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: sexualities, histories, progressivism, page 152:

     Titling a 1914 public lecture series at New York's Astor Hotel, “Studies in Masculism,” she complained that the printer objected to the word and attempted to change it.

     Despite an unfriendly press, she specially targeted "masculist" authors and purveyors of negative views of women.

3. Sexism in favor of men.

Quotations

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:masculism.

Synonyms

• masculinism
• androcentrism
• patriarchalism

Related terms

• masculist

Translations

See also

• feminism
• feminist
• formenism
• masculinism
• masculinist
• masculist