TY - JOUR
T1 - Feminist and Anti-Feminist Identification in the 21st Century United States
AU - Elder, Laurel
AU - Greene, Steven
AU - Lizotte, Mary Kate
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Feminism and anti-feminism featured prominently in the 2016 presidential election. Hillary Clinton was the first female major party presidential candidate and self-identified as a feminist speaking openly about the challenges facing women. Clinton faced off against Donald Trump, who was on record making sexist statements and arguing that Clinton’s success was from playing the “woman card”. We ask several questions: who identifies as a feminist today and how is this different from who identified as a feminist in the previous generation? Who identifies as “anti-feminist”? Are anti-feminists simply a mirror reflection of feminists or is it a distinctive social identity? Finally, the study explores the meaning of these labels by looking at what feminists and anti-feminists believe in terms of public policy and attitudes about gender equality. Thus, this study provides insights into the state of modern feminism and antifeminism in contemporary American politics.
AB - Feminism and anti-feminism featured prominently in the 2016 presidential election. Hillary Clinton was the first female major party presidential candidate and self-identified as a feminist speaking openly about the challenges facing women. Clinton faced off against Donald Trump, who was on record making sexist statements and arguing that Clinton’s success was from playing the “woman card”. We ask several questions: who identifies as a feminist today and how is this different from who identified as a feminist in the previous generation? Who identifies as “anti-feminist”? Are anti-feminists simply a mirror reflection of feminists or is it a distinctive social identity? Finally, the study explores the meaning of these labels by looking at what feminists and anti-feminists believe in terms of public policy and attitudes about gender equality. Thus, this study provides insights into the state of modern feminism and antifeminism in contemporary American politics.
KW - anti-feminist identification
KW - feminism
KW - Feminist identification
KW - gender equality
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U2 - 10.1080/1554477X.2021.1929607
DO - 10.1080/1554477X.2021.1929607
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85109972316
SN - 1554-477X
VL - 42
SP - 243
EP - 259
JO - Journal of Women, Politics and Policy
JF - Journal of Women, Politics and Policy
IS - 3
ER -