Being Young Feminists: Discussions and (Dis)Contents

Adams, Eike; Busso, Lilliana Del; Foster, Nena; Majumdar, Anamika; Marzano, Lisa; Papadima, Maria

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“…But while the feminist academy has concerned itself with how features of postfeminism may produce feminist dis-identification, little work has focused on the dilemmas of women who identify as feminists and who continue to identify, even if in a troubled way, with normative femininity. Notable exceptions include Adams et al.’s (2007) discussion of the difficulties in ‘coming out’ as feminists in a feminist-hostile society and negotiating the expectation that as ‘real’ feminists they should reject heteronormative expectations in relation to their sexuality and physical appearance. Similarly, Throsby and Gimlin (2010) offer a reflexive piece regarding their positions as both feminist researchers critical of the thin ideal and women who are part of a culture that values the slim body.…”

Section: Negotiating Femininity Within a Postfeminist Contextmentioning

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Feminism versus femininity? Exploring feminist dilemmas through cooperative inquiry research

Riley

Scharff

2012

Feminism & Psychology

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This article analyses the findings from a cooperative inquiry study with seven feminist identified women based in the UK. It explores the tensions participants experienced in negotiating their feminist identification on the one hand and engagements in normative beauty practices on the other. A discourse analysis of participants’ talk identified an ideological dilemma of ‘feminism versus femininity’, a contemporary re-working of long-standing constructions of feminism and femininity as mutually exclusive. In exploring how this dilemma was negotiated, the article supports existing arguments that femininity is increasingly constructed as a bodily practice. The article also examines the consequences of employing the feminist versus femininity dilemma which included the use of anti-feminist and homophobic constructions. Strategies to resist the dilemma involved postfeminist individual choice arguments or refusal to participate in practices that were critiqued. These strategies were individualist, only partially successful, and failed to engage with the classed and racialised aspects of contemporary beauty ideals.

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Section: Negotiating Femininity Within a Postfeminist Contextmentioning

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Feminism versus femininity? Exploring feminist dilemmas through cooperative inquiry research

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Scharff

2012

Feminism & Psychology

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“…Feminism is considered one of the most relevant recent social movements in industrialized societies, but it is not without controversy (Delmar, 2018; Loke et al, 2017). New generations are growing up in a social moment in which feminism, anti-feminism, and post-feminism are in constant conflict and so public self-identification as a feminist entails intellectual and emotional negotiation (Adams et al, 2007). Understanding how new generations understand feminism and researching feminist identification can provide useful insights for developing feminist pedagogies aimed at fostering egalitarian values among young people (Jackson, 2018).…”

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Comparing social representations of feminism among education and engineering majors: Insights for developing feminist pedagogies

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Mondragón

Jaureguizar

2022

Feminism & Psychology

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The present study uses Social Representation Theory to explore students’ representations of feminism with a view to informing principles for developing feminist pedagogies that can help foster egalitarian values among college students. The aim is to identify how Spanish students (n = 366) represent feminism and how these representations are shaped by participants’ gender, identification with feminism, or by studying feminized or masculinized disciplines. Students from Education ( n = 192), a feminized qualification, and Engineering ( n = 174), a masculinized qualification, completed a free association task using the Grid Elaboration Method to collect representations of feminism. A lexical analysis was conducted using the Reinert method. The results showed that a positive representation of feminism was the broadest (75.8%), with feminist-identified students defining feminism as a struggle for freedom. Feminist women emphasized the importance of achieving equality, and education students emphasized the importance of education in the process of women's empowerment. In contrast, 24.2% represented feminism negatively, as an extreme movement, especially engineering, non-feminist, and male students. These findings suggest that efforts aimed at developing feminist principles among students consider not only gender and feminist identification but also the context of feminized or masculinized disciplines as key spaces of gendered socialization. The study was carried out in the Basque country, Spain.

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Being Young Feminists: Discussions and (Dis)Contents

Cited by 2 publications

References 4 publications

Feminism versus femininity? Exploring feminist dilemmas through cooperative inquiry research

Feminism versus femininity? Exploring feminist dilemmas through cooperative inquiry research

Comparing social representations of feminism among education and engineering majors: Insights for developing feminist pedagogies

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