Noun

1. A social theory or political movement supporting the equality of both sexes in all aspects of public and private life; specifically, a theory or movement that argues that legal and social restrictions on males must be removed in order to bring about such equality.
2. A belief in the superiority of men or the masculine.
   • 1983, Sheila Ruth, quoted in Judith Evans (1986), Feminism and Political Theory http://books.google.com/books?id=094_AAAAMAAJ, ISBN 0803997051, page 70:

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

   • 1997, Nalini Persram, "In my father's house are many mansions", in Black British Feminism: A Reader http://books.google.com/books?id=GdSqaz6NBMIC, ISBN 0415152887, page 213:

   It often takes a crisis of some sort to initiate the difficult but empowering feminist process of renegotiating the masculisms that dominate the discourses of origin, authenticity and belonging in a way that transforms margins into frontiers, lack into (ad)vantage.

   • 2004, Thomas Schatz, Hollywood http://books.google.com/books?id=lM-rx7S2ijoC, ISBN 0415281350, page 73:

   The Rocky-Rambo syndrome puts on display the raw masculism which is at the bottom of conservative socialization and ideology.