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- Title
Memories of Movement in a Postfeminist Context: Conservative Fusion in the Rhetoric of Tammy Bruce and “Dr. Laura” Schlessinger.
- Authors
Foust, Christina R.; Simon, Jenni Marie
- Abstract
Feminist rhetorical critics have located the right's efforts to attract female voters through the allure of “conservative feminism.” Missing from this discussion, however, is a richer understanding of the ideologies from which “conservative feminism” emerges. We reveal a key rhetorical strategy for the right: memories of feminism. Fragments from two prominent conservative women—Tammy Bruce and “Dr. Laura” Schlessinger—reveal how meanings about social movement are always subject to change via social struggle. We consider the implications of Schlessinger's and Bruce's memories of liberal feminism as a radical movement, and their fostering of identification through subjects reminiscent of classical liberalism.
- Subjects
COLLECTIVE memory; CONSERVATISM; FEMINISM; IDENTIFICATION (Psychology); LIBERALISM
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2015, Vol 79, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570314.2014.943425