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Definitions by postfeminist scholar

postfeminism 

The belief that feminism needs to be extended and challenged to explain women's experience and expectations that are constantly changing due to cultural and socioeconomic conditions. Sometimes viewed as the belief that feminism is dead or does not represent the challenges that women face today. An alternative term for postfeminism is third wave feminism.
Sometimes postfeminism is considered a conservative belief system or the result of conservatism since the 1980s.