Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-25wd4 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-25T10:57:21.189Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Understanding the Future of Feminism Requires Understanding Conservative Women

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2014

Ronnee Schreiber
Ronnee Schreiber*
Affiliation:
San Diego State University
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The question of whether or not we still need a women's movement is legitimate and important, but it usually presumes a conflation of women with feminist. Certainly, significant gains in women's rights and status are due to decades of feminist activism, but feminists have not been the only ones advocating on behalf of women. Indeed, as long as there have been feminist women's movements, there have been conservative women contesting them. The increase in the number of conservative women running for office and the growth of a conservative women's movement prompts further questions about identity and representation, women's interests, and the future of feminism itself.

Type
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Information
Politics & Gender , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 276 - 280
Copyright
Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2014 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Carlin, Diana B., and Winfrey, Kelly L.. 2009. “Have You Come a Long Way, Baby? Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Sexism in 2008 Campaign Coverage.” Communication Studies 60 (4): 326–43.Google Scholar
Heflick, Nathan A., and Goldenberg, Jamie L.. 2009. “Sarah Palin, A Nation Object(ifie)s: The Role of Appearance Focus in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election.” Sex Roles 65: 149–55.Google Scholar
Hirschmann, Nancy. 2010. “Choosing Betrayal.” Perspectives on Politics 8 (1): 271–78.Google Scholar
Nazworth, Napp. 2011. “Women's Groups From Left, Right Condemn Michele Bachmann's Newsweek Cover.” Christian Post, August 9.Google Scholar
Schreiber, Ronnee. 2012a. “Dilemmas of Representation: Conservative and Feminist Women's Organizations React to Sarah Palin.” In Women of the Right, ed. Blee, Kathleen M., and Deutsch, Sandra McGee University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 273–90.Google Scholar
Schreiber, Ronnee. 2012b. Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Schreiber, Ronnee. 2013. “Representing Mothers' Interests in Politics: Negotiating Ideology and Strategy.” Presented at the third European Conference for Politics and Gender, Barcelona, Spain.Google Scholar