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- Title
Is Barack Obama the First Feminist President?
- Authors
Flynn, Elizabeth A.
- Abstract
An essay is presented on the possibility that U.S. President Barack Obama as the first feminist president. It mentions that Obama cannot alienate his majority White audience through appearing to be threatening by using masculine discourse because he aims to appear appealing as an African American male. President Obama casts the issues of women he explores mainly in liberal feminist terms, endorsing liberal solutions to the problems of women and stressing the achievements of individual women.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FEMINISTS; OBAMA, Barack, 1961-; FEMINISM; RHETORIC; ENGLISH dialect literature
- Publication
College Composition & Communication, 2016, Vol 67, Issue 3, p483
- ISSN
0010-096X
- Publication type
Essay