Tangles, tears and messy conversations: using a media discussion group to explore notions of strong women

Lane, Laura; Woloshyn, Vera; Taber, Nancy

doi:10.1080/09589236.2016.1243044

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“…The a-SYN subscale (e.g., 'I am proud to be a competent woman') measures women's perception of being called to enact patriarchal notions of strength, such as being aggressive, rational, and bodily strength (Connell and Pearse, 2015), while the f-SYN subscale (e.g., 'I have incorporated what is female and feminine into my own unique personality') measures women's perception of femininity, such as career, motherhood, and beauty (Lane et al, 2016). However, for Chinese women, the figures of feminine women and strong women seem to be incompatible.…”

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“…For example, second-wave feminists regard femininity as a set of embodied characteristics and practices imposed on women which result from or signify their subordinate status in relation to men (Schippers and Sapp, 2012), while for third-wave feminists, femininity is embodied as a surface performance available to everyone, regardless of sex category (Schippers and Sapp, 2012). Third-wave feminists encourage 'girls' to immerse themselves in the pleasures of femaleness (Lane et al, 2016;Siegel and Calogero, 2019). Therefore, women whose views are more in line with second-wave feminists would reject femininity and get an inverse score in two subscales of SYN, while supporters of thirdwave feminism would not.…”

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Reliability and Validity of Feminist Identity Composite in Chinese Women

Liu

Zheng

2019

Front. Psychol.

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This study evaluated the psychometric properties of a Chinese form of the Feminist Identity Composite (FIC). A total of 2,334 Chinese adult women completed the scale for this study. In study 1 (n = 875), exploratory analysis indicated six factors, Passive Acceptance, Revelation, Embeddedness/Emanation, Active Commitment, and Synthesis, the latter of which was divided into two subscales (Femininity Synthesis and Autonomous Synthesis). In study 2 (n = 810), confirmatory factor analysis was conducted with a different sample to examine the construct validity of the model obtained in study 1. In study 3 (n = 649), the convergent validity of the FIC was examined via their relationship with willingness to engage in feminist behaviors and attitude toward trans-people. The results indicated that a new measurement with solid conceptual and psychometrically solid properties needs to be developed to assess Chinese women's feminist identity.

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