Women Who Run from the Wolves
Feminist Critique as Post-Feminism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895913 |
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| Authors | Anne-Marie Kinahan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 31-46 |
| Publication date | 2001-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-s031-02-03 |
| OpenAlex | W2021712030 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
For some time now I have been intrigued by the discourses on post-feminism consistently articulated within popular media. In an attempt to interrogate and understand the rise of this post-feminist movement, this article discusses three of the most popular treatments of the topic: René Denfeld’s The New Victorians (1995), Katie Roiphe’s The Morning After (1993), and Christina Hoff Sommers’s Who Stole Feminism? (1994). Specifically concerned with how these works define feminism, how they articulate the “crisis” of the movement, and what solutions they propose, I am interested in uncovering what is at stake in these debates. The similarities between these books (all published in the early 1990s, all discussing campus feminism, all written by feminist-identified, university-educated women) allow for an assessment of how these young, white, well-educated women position themselves against a movement once thought to be theirs alone. While each author claims to offer insight into the current crisis facing feminism, it is my contention that, collectively, these works signal a fear of the perceived radicalism of feminism on university campuses, a radicalism which these authors attribute to the increasing influence of queer theory, “radical” lesbians, and feminists of colour. These fears over the potential radicalization of young women belie a concern over the loss of literary and canonical traditions, as well as an attendant concern over the legacy of the university as a cultural, intellectual, and social institution
Feminism · Feminist movement · Institution · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Queer · Queer theory · Radicalization · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Highly cited | No |
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