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Feminism’s Buzzwords: How Women’s Studies Rewrote Reality

Feminism’s Buzzwords: How Women’s Studies Rewrote Reality

Update: 2025-10-31
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In this episode, we trace the evolution of Women’s Studies — the ideological factory floor where feminist theory manufactures its ever-expanding vocabulary. From the early days of academic grievance studies to today’s buzzwords like microfeminism, hermeneutic labor, and kin-keeping, we examine how each new term tries to keep the ideology alive in a world that has stopped taking it seriously. What supposedly began as a movement for equality has become a language of perpetual victimhood and we’re unpacking how that happened, one feminist neologism at a time.

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Feminism’s Buzzwords: How Women’s Studies Rewrote Reality

Feminism’s Buzzwords: How Women’s Studies Rewrote Reality

Hannah Spier, MD, James L. Nuzzo, Janice Fiamengo, and Tom Golden