`I Don't Think People Really Talk about It That Much': Young Women Discuss Feminism

Rúdólfsdóttir, Annadís Greta; Jolliffe, Rachel

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“…Feminism represents a contested terrain for young women in western Europe. While feminist activism is ongoing -also amongst young women - (Dean, 2010;Eismann, 2007), research suggests that feminism is overwhelmingly unpopular, indeed 'almost hated' (McRobbie, 2003:130;Aapola et al, 2005;Rich, 2005;Rúdólfsdóttir and Jolliffe, 2008). This article discusses the findings of a qualitative study on young women's engagements with feminism in Britain and Germany.…”

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Disarticulating feminism: Individualization, neoliberalism and the othering of ‘Muslim women’

Scharff

2011

European Journal of Women's Studies

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Disarticulating feminism: Individualization, neoliberalism and the othering of ‘Muslim women’

Scharff

2011

European Journal of Women's Studies

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“…Many feminist goals have been achieved, yet gender inequalities continue to characterize the socio-economic order in Germany and Britain (European Commission, 2011), and feminist dis-identification is prevalent amongst young women. Recent studies have demonstrated that though young British women embody feminist ideals, many would not call themselves feminist (Jowett, 2004; Rich, 2005; Rúdólfsdóttir and Jolliffe, 2008). Feminism is equally unpopular amongst young women in Germany (Rottmann, 1998; Reiss, 2004).…”

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‘It is a colour thing and a status thing, rather than a gender thing’: Negotiating difference in talk about feminism

Scharff

2011

Feminism & Psychology

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Young women's rejection of feminism is well-recognized if seemingly paradoxical. Based on 40 qualitative interviews with a diverse group of German and British research participants, this article adopts a performative approach to enhance our understanding of young women's relationship with feminism. First, the article argues that rejections of feminism as anti-man, lesbian or unfeminine should be read as performances of femininity. Second, the article regards performances of femininity as racialized and classed. It traces how race and class are assumed in talk about feminism and examines how young women's positionings intersect with feminist dis-identification. The construction of feminists as unfeminine, for example, posed particular challenges to women who were positioned at a distance from notions of ‘respectable femininity’ because of their class background. While the relationship between young women's positionings and stances towards feminism is not predetermined, the article investigates how gender identity, sexuality, race and class matter in engagements with feminism.

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“…Seemingly consistent with this view, until quite recently feminist researchers were largely reporting young women’s distancing from feminism, in particular their (postfeminist) views of feminism as outmoded and unnecessary in a world where they purportedly have (more) equality with men (Budgeon, 2001; Scharff, 2010; Sharpe, 2001). Young women’s reluctance to identify as feminists can readily be understood in a discursive context where the meanings of feminism confer an abject, tainted identity as unfeminine, a man-hater or a trouble-maker (Frith, 2001; Ruddolfsdottir & Joliffe, 2008). Nor is disavowal of feminism surprising in a context of a tenacious postfeminist environment (Gill, 2016) that greatly complicates the feminist terrain through an individualising language of choice, rights and freedom.…”

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Young feminists, feminism and digital media

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2018

Feminism & Psychology

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Over recent years, young feminist activism has assumed prominence in mainstream media where news headlines herald the efforts of schoolgirls in fighting sexism, sexual violence and inequity. Less visible in the public eye, girls' activism plays out in social media where they can speak out about gender-based injustices experienced and witnessed. Yet we know relatively little about this significant social moment wherein an increasing visibility of young feminism cohabits a stubbornly persistent postfeminist culture. Acknowledging the hiatus, this paper draws on a qualitative project with teenage feminists to explore how girls are using and producing digital feminist media, what it means for them to do so and how their online practice connects with their offline feminism. Using a feminist poststructuralist approach, analyses identified three key constructions of digital media as a tool for feminist practice: online feminism as precarious and as knowledge sharing; and feminism as ''doing something'' on/offline. Discussing these findings, I argue that there is marked continuity between girls' practices in ''safe'' digital spaces and feminisms practised in other historical and geographical locations. But crucially, and perhaps distinctly, digital media are a key tool to connect girls with feminism and with other feminists in local and global contexts.

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`I Don't Think People Really Talk about It That Much': Young Women Discuss Feminism

Cited by 19 publications

References 8 publications

Disarticulating feminism: Individualization, neoliberalism and the othering of ‘Muslim women’

Disarticulating feminism: Individualization, neoliberalism and the othering of ‘Muslim women’

‘It is a colour thing and a status thing, rather than a gender thing’: Negotiating difference in talk about feminism

Young feminists, feminism and digital media

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