Iron front and back of shirt holding baby, objecting to it? (8)
I believe the answer is:
feminist
'objecting to it?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.
'iron front and back of shirt holding baby' is the wordplay.
'iron' becomes 'Fe' (Fe is the chemical symbol for iron).
'front and back of' means to remove the middle letters (I've seen 'front and back' mean this).
'holding' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'baby' becomes 'mini' (I've seen this before).
'shirt' with its middle removed is 'st'.
'fe'+'st'='fest'
'fest' placed around 'mini' is 'FEMINIST'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for feminist that I've seen before include "Female supporter" , "Advocate of women's rights" , "I'm finest as activist in women's lib movement" , "I'm finest (anag.)" , "I'm finest with supporter of women's lib" .)