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- Title
12Feminisms.
- Authors
McEneaney, Sinead
- Abstract
This review explores recent scholarship on the relationship between conservative politics and feminisms. Against the background of the US Presidential election, the year 2008 was dominated by a reinvigorated interest in feminism, bookended by the failed primary campaign of Hillary Clinton and the Sarah Palin’s unsuccessful bid for the Vice-Presidency. Such discussions were not confined to the academy, and spilled out into the public arena, with an elevated interest in the intersection between feminism and conservatism.As there was no ‘Feminisms’ section in the 2007 issue of this journal, I have chosen to review texts across the years 2007–2008: the two books under consideration are Julia Bush’s Women Against the Vote: Female Anti-Suffragism in Britain, and Ronnee Schreiber’s Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics. Both authors argue, in different ways, that in considering conservative women’s movements alongside feminist movements, we can develop a richer historical and theoretical understanding of the widening boundaries of feminisms.This review explores recent scholarship on the relationship between conservative politics and feminisms. There are three sections: 1. The Political and Cultural Landscape; 2. Historicizing Conservative Women in Britain; 3. Righting Feminist Theory.
- Publication
Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory, 2010, Vol 18, Issue 1, p258
- ISSN
1077-4254
- Publication type
Article