New wave or second stage? Attitudes of college women toward feminism

Renzetti, Claire M.

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“…Furthermore, 92% of young women (ages 18-24) reported favorable attitudes toward the women's movement. This discrepancy between (generally positive) feminist attitudes and (lack of) identification as a feminist is not new; it has been a consistent, robust finding for the past twenty years (Burn et al 2000;Buschman and Lenart 1996;Henderson-King and Stewart 1994;Renzetti 1987;RoweFinkbeiner 2004). As the quote above suggests, something about the word feminist prevents and even actively repels people from identifying themselves as such despite their endorsement of feminist ideals.…”

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“…The most common approach to indirectly assessing the evaluative meaning of the term feminist has been to use a variety of paper and pencil measures of constructs such as feminist identification, attitudes toward feminism, feminist beliefs, and feminist consciousness (Buschman and Lenart 1996;Goldberg et al 1975;Jacobson 1979;Reid and Purcell 2004;Renzetti 1987;Rhodebeck 1996;Saunders and Kashubeck-West 2006;Toller et al 2004;Williams and Wittig 1997;Zucker 2004). For example, Zucker (2004) investigated feminist identification, by using a behavioral measure along with more traditional attitudinal methods.…”

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What’s in a Name? Two Approaches to Evaluating the Label Feminist

Breen

Karpinski

2007

Sex Roles

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Across two studies, we employed unique approaches to investigating the meaning of the label feminist using a sample of undergraduates from a large Northeastern university in the U.S. In Study 1 (N=60), we utilized an impression formation paradigm to investigate the meaning of the label feminist when applied to typical college student. The results revealed that feminist males were rated less favorably than nonfeminist males and feminist females were rated more favorably than nonfeminist females. In Study 2 (N=112), we examined the context-free associations that people have with the label feminist using two implicit attitude measures. Females reported positive implicit associations with the label feminist while males expressed neutral to slightly negative implicit associations with feminists.

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What’s in a Name? Two Approaches to Evaluating the Label Feminist

Breen

Karpinski

2007

Sex Roles

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“…As has been noted by several authors (e.g. Edley & Wetherell, 2001;Peace, 2003;Renzetti, 1987;Riley, 2001), the discursive redefinition of ideas such as 'equality', 'subordination' and 'liberation' in certain mainstream discourses of 'power femininity' (Lazar, 2006, p. 21) actually serve to invalidate ongoing attempts to challenge pervasive, hegemonic patriarchal power structures.…”

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`Empowerment' and the Pole: A Discursive Investigation of the Reinvention of Pole Dancing as a Recreational Activity

Whitehead

Kurz

2009

Feminism & Psychology

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'Empowerment' and the pole: a discursive investigation of the re-invention of pole dancing as a recreational activityThe activity of 'pole dancing' has recently been transformed from an act performed exclusively in strip clubs to one currently marketed as a form of aerobic exercise. While much feminist academic work has investigated aspects of the sex industry, such as stripping, very little research has been conducted into this recent social phenomenon of pole dancing as a recreational activity.This study takes a feminist poststructuralist approach to the investigation of this topic through the discursive analysis of talk produced in a range of focus groups and interviews. Participants included instructors at pole dancing studios, regular pupils at the studios, once-off pole dancers, and general university students (a total of 25 participants; 20 females and 5 males). Our analysis focuses on the ways in which ideological dilemmas surrounding issues such as empowerment, control, and the male gaze are managed within the participants' accounts. Implications of these constructions are discussed in relation to the redefinition/reiteration of hegemonic, patriarchal notions of female sexuality.

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“…Percy and Kremer (1995), for example, have noted how media representations of feminists portray them as both militant and physically unattractive. One of the main consequences of this, they argue, is that many women are put off from identifying as feminist (see also Griffin, 1989 andRenzetti, 1987).…”

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Jekyll and Hyde: Men's Constructions of Feminism and Feminists

Edley

Wetherell

2001

Feminism & Psychology

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Research and commentary on men's responses to feminism has demonstrated the range of ways in which men have mobilised both against and for feminist principles. This paper argues that further analyses of men's responses require a sophisticated theory of discourse acknowledging the fragmented and contradictory nature of representation. A corpus of men's talk on feminism and feminists was studied to identify the pervasive patterns in men's accounting and regularities in rhetorical organisation. Material from two samples of men was included: a sample of white middle-class 17-18 year old school students and a sample of 60 interviews with a more diverse sample of older men aged 20 to 64. Two interpretative repertoires of feminism and feminists were identified. These set up a 'Jekyll and Hyde' binary and positioned feminism along with feminists very differently as reasonable versus extreme and monstrous. Both repertoires tended to be deployed together and the paper explores the ideological and interactional consequences of typical deployments along with the identity work accomplished by the men as they positioned themselves in relation to these.

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New wave or second stage? Attitudes of college women toward feminism

Cited by 89 publications

References 6 publications

What’s in a Name? Two Approaches to Evaluating the Label Feminist

What’s in a Name? Two Approaches to Evaluating the Label Feminist

`Empowerment' and the Pole: A Discursive Investigation of the Reinvention of Pole Dancing as a Recreational Activity

Jekyll and Hyde: Men's Constructions of Feminism and Feminists

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