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} }
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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