• DOI:10.1111/j.1471-6402.2004.00159.x
Corpus ID: 144528255

Disavowing Social Identities: What it Means When Women Say, “I'm not a Feminist, But …”

@article{Zucker2004DisavowingSI,
  title={Disavowing Social Identities: What it Means When Women Say, “I'm not a Feminist, But …”},
  author={A. Zucker},
  journal={Psychology of Women Quarterly},
  year={2004},
  volume={28},
  pages={423 - 435}
}

• A. Zucker
• Published 2004
• Sociology
• Psychology of Women Quarterly

Many women, even as they embrace feminist principles, are loath to be labeled feminists. This study presents a measure of feminist identity that accounts for beliefs and behaviors of self-identified feminists and nonfeminists, and for a third group, egalitarians, who endorse liberal feminist beliefs but reject the feminist label. In a sample of 272 college-educated women, a MANOVA showed egalitarians had levels of feminist consciousness between nonfeminists and feminists. Egalitarians did not… Expand

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