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Christina Scharff’s recent publication ‘Repudiating feminism: Young women in a neoliberal world’ is an excellent place to start.
some I know think its for ” loosers” who are old and ugly, they think, stupid twits that they are, ” if your pretty and not fat, who needs it, men do what I want all the time”.
Some other young women in college, say, yes its important, and I hope women keep fighting, but I dont have time to get involved, perhaps whan I’m older. Both are sad, and need to wake up and smell the misogeny, now
Here are a few possible relevant articles.
Roy, Weibust, & Miller, Effects of stereotypes
about feminists on feminist self-identification. 2007, Psychology of women
quarterly, 31, 146–156.
Liss, O’Connor, Morosky, & Crawford, What
makes a feminist? Predictors and correlates of feminist social identity in
college women. 2001, Psychology of women quarterly, 25, 124–133.
There were others but I can’t recall them now.
Is there a contact for the reader? I have completed research that might be relevant, but would rather contact directly than leave it here.
I know this isn’t relevant research — but just to counter the first post: I am a 22 year old recent college graduate and religiously read this blog. Feminist Philosophy was one of the most rewarding courses I took in college, and many of my female friends feel that way too! And the ones who didn’t take it are now asking me for feminist reading material. All hope is not lost.
* sorry, 2nd post
I posted the link. I can be reached at wendy.obrien@humber.ca
Dan Kindlon’s Alpha Girls: Understanding The New American Girl and How She is Changing the World (2007) talks about a generation of girls who are independent, confident, and motivated and are reaping the benefit of the women’s movement while seeing no real need for feminism in their own lives. Many of the mothers of the girls Kindlon interviews are self-proclaimed feminists, but the girls themselves don’t identify as feminists.
Anecdotally, I used to work at a feminist girls’ school, and it was quite common for girls to explicitly deny being feminists beginning around grade ten and continuing almost to graduation. These girls, many of whom had been students at the school for some time, may have reached a saturation point and been tired of looking at education materials through a feminist lens, or they may have reached a stage developmentally where they needed to push boundaries and challenge the ideas of the adults around them, most of whom were feminists. They were certainly influenced by media representations of feminists and sought to distance themselves from those stereotypes. Interestingly, by the end of high school and continuing into university, these same girls often identified strongly as feminists and embraced feminist activitsm in various ways. Again, could be related to developmental stage or to leaving the school, entering university, college, the workplace, and finding that the world is not as equal and equitable as they believed.