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- Title
A NEW BATTLEGROUND FOR AMERICAN FEMINISM: HOW SECOND- AND THIRD-WAVE FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES CONTRIBUTED TO THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
- Authors
Keegan, Brittany
- Abstract
The 2016 American presidential election proved to be monumental for feminism, for it not only stood as an historic moment for women in politics but it also displayed how gaps within feminist approaches can be leveraged to advance the presidential candidate's agendas. This article analyzes how the three leading presidential candidates provided the nation with political platforms from which themes from varying waves of feminism emerged and prospered. While Sanders embraced third-wave feminism, Clinton's campaign exemplified a second and third-wave feminist hybrid approach and Trump's campaign incorporated some second-wave feminist perspectives. These arguments are supported by drawing parallels between each candidate's platforms, newspaper articles about the candidates, and feminist wave(s) they exemplified. This article then explores how feminist perspectives may manifest in current and future national discourses.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FEMINISM; UNITED States presidential election, 2016; WOMEN in politics; PRESIDENTIAL candidates; POLITICAL platforms
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2018, Vol 25, Issue 2/3, p105
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article