Post-Backlash Feminism: Women and the Media Since Reagan-Bush

ISBN-13: 9780786431182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 199 str.

Kellie Bean

Opis

This work scrutinizes the prefix-based language of post-backlash feminism and calls for a reclamation of American feminist terminology. Questioning the merits of -Do-Me-feminism, - -Eco-feminism, - and -girlie, - among other isms, the author argues that the proliferation of so-called -prefix feminisms- has weakened the feminist movement by narrowing its focus into shallow interpretations of a broad social and political cause. The author assesses anti-feminist media coverage, particularly following the Reagan administration and the Clinton-Lewinski affair, and concludes that efforts to reclaim a pro-woman politic must begin with reclaiming pro-woman language.