Victim feminism

Victim feminism is a term that has been used by some conservative postfeminist writers such as Katie Roiphe^[1] and Naomi Wolf^[1] to critique forms of feminist activism which they see as reinforcing the idea that women are weak or lacking in agency.^[2]^: 393^[3]

^ ^a ^b Heywood, Leslie; Drake, Jennifer, eds. (1997). "Introduction". Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-0-8166-3005-9.
^ Schneider, Elizabeth M. (1993). "Feminism and the False Dichotomy of Victimization and Agency" (PDF). New York Law School Law Review. 38: 387–399. ISSN 0145-448X. Also available at HeinOnline.
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Primary sources:
- Goldberg, Carole (29 December 1993). "Feminist War Is Won". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016. Fire announces a 'genderquake' – a resurgence of female political power. And it says it's time to reject the 'victim' feminism that casts women as powerless objects of male malevolence in favor of a new "power" feminism that enables women
- Beck, Joan (23 January 1994). "Feminist Indifference to Children a Key Weakness". The Buffalo News. Buffalo, N.Y. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016. most women don't fully understand yet that a 'genderquake' has occurred. The time has come to shuck 'victim feminism' and its sexist whining and embrace 'power feminism,' the better for women to reach out and claim their fair share
- Pollitt, Katha (21 February 1994). "Subject to Debate". The Nation. Archived from the original on 3 May 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016. The current attack on 'victim feminism' is partly a class phenomenon, a kind of status anxiety.
- Abrams, Kathryn (April 1994). "Review: Songs of Innocence and Experience: Dominance Feminism in the University" (PDF). The Yale Law Journal. 103 (6): 1533–1560. doi:10.2307/797093. ISSN 1939-8611. JSTOR 797093. If these movements are not to work at cross-purposes, feminists in both genres ought to give thought to their inter-relations: writers like Roiphe, Paglia, and Naomi Wolf might have had more difficulty making a target out of victim feminism, for example, if academic feminists had ...
- Raven, Arlene (Summer 1994). "Judy Chicago: The Artist Critics Love to Hate". On the Issues. Naomi Wolf, in her Fire with Fire, defines victim feminism as women seeking power 'through an identity of powerlessness.' Two features of victim feminism according to Wolf are: identifying with powerlessness even at the expense of taking responsibility for the power women do possess; and putting community first, hence being hostile toward individual achievement

[Heywood_p1-1] Heywood, Leslie; Drake, Jennifer, eds. (1997). "Introduction". Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-0-8166-3005-9.

[Schneider_1993-2] Schneider, Elizabeth M. (1993). "Feminism and the False Dichotomy of Victimization and Agency" (PDF). New York Law School Law Review. 38: 387–399. ISSN 0145-448X. Also available at HeinOnline.

[3] Primary sources:
Goldberg, Carole (29 December 1993). "Feminist War Is Won". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016. Fire announces a 'genderquake' – a resurgence of female political power. And it says it's time to reject the 'victim' feminism that casts women as powerless objects of male malevolence in favor of a new "power" feminism that enables women

Beck, Joan (23 January 1994). "Feminist Indifference to Children a Key Weakness". The Buffalo News. Buffalo, N.Y. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016. most women don't fully understand yet that a 'genderquake' has occurred. The time has come to shuck 'victim feminism' and its sexist whining and embrace 'power feminism,' the better for women to reach out and claim their fair share

Pollitt, Katha (21 February 1994). "Subject to Debate". The Nation. Archived from the original on 3 May 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016. The current attack on 'victim feminism' is partly a class phenomenon, a kind of status anxiety.

Abrams, Kathryn (April 1994). "Review: Songs of Innocence and Experience: Dominance Feminism in the University" (PDF). The Yale Law Journal. 103 (6): 1533–1560. doi:10.2307/797093. ISSN 1939-8611. JSTOR 797093. If these movements are not to work at cross-purposes, feminists in both genres ought to give thought to their inter-relations: writers like Roiphe, Paglia, and Naomi Wolf might have had more difficulty making a target out of victim feminism, for example, if academic feminists had ...

Raven, Arlene (Summer 1994). "Judy Chicago: The Artist Critics Love to Hate". On the Issues. Naomi Wolf, in her Fire with Fire, defines victim feminism as women seeking power 'through an identity of powerlessness.' Two features of victim feminism according to Wolf are: identifying with powerlessness even at the expense of taking responsibility for the power women do possess; and putting community first, hence being hostile toward individual achievement

[4] Goldberg, Carole (29 December 1993). "Feminist War Is Won". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016. Fire announces a 'genderquake' – a resurgence of female political power. And it says it's time to reject the 'victim' feminism that casts women as powerless objects of male malevolence in favor of a new "power" feminism that enables women

[5] Beck, Joan (23 January 1994). "Feminist Indifference to Children a Key Weakness". The Buffalo News. Buffalo, N.Y. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016. most women don't fully understand yet that a 'genderquake' has occurred. The time has come to shuck 'victim feminism' and its sexist whining and embrace 'power feminism,' the better for women to reach out and claim their fair share

[6] Pollitt, Katha (21 February 1994). "Subject to Debate". The Nation. Archived from the original on 3 May 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2016. The current attack on 'victim feminism' is partly a class phenomenon, a kind of status anxiety.

[7] Abrams, Kathryn (April 1994). "Review: Songs of Innocence and Experience: Dominance Feminism in the University" (PDF). The Yale Law Journal. 103 (6): 1533–1560. doi:10.2307/797093. ISSN 1939-8611. JSTOR 797093. If these movements are not to work at cross-purposes, feminists in both genres ought to give thought to their inter-relations: writers like Roiphe, Paglia, and Naomi Wolf might have had more difficulty making a target out of victim feminism, for example, if academic feminists had ...

[8] Raven, Arlene (Summer 1994). "Judy Chicago: The Artist Critics Love to Hate". On the Issues. Naomi Wolf, in her Fire with Fire, defines victim feminism as women seeking power 'through an identity of powerlessness.' Two features of victim feminism according to Wolf are: identifying with powerlessness even at the expense of taking responsibility for the power women do possess; and putting community first, hence being hostile toward individual achievement

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