By Susan B. Boyd
During this well timed quantity, individuals from numerous disciplines examine response and resistance to feminism in numerous components of legislation and coverage – baby custody, baby poverty, sexual harassment, and sexual attack – and in a few institutional websites, comparable to courts, legislatures, households, the mainstream media, and the academy. jointly, their experiences paint a sophisticated, frequently contradictory, photograph of feminism, legislation, and social switch, delivering feminists and activists empirically grounded wisdom to strengthen felony and political techniques for switch.
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Describing the VOW action as “virulent feminism,” DiManno says that the group – “accusatory, vengeful, engorged with hatred for our fathers and our brothers and our husbands and our sons” – had “politicized” Remembrance Day and “don’t see the shame” of it. Overall, the mainstream media consistently constructed a division between women who were homogenized as reasonable, peaceful, heterosexual, feminine, and attractive and feminists who were homogenized and “othered” as unreasonable, unruly, lesbian, masculine, and unattractive.
Moreover, people often read selectively and may routinely skip “hard” news coverage. 2 The Operation of Mass Media in Liberal States Like all media coverage, the depictions of feminists and feminist perspectives on equality/equity since the 1960s reXect two major, intersecting inXuences on the determination of what was newsworthy and how it was represented (Hall 1993). , 1978, chapter 3; Gitlin 1980, 249-82; Ericson, Baranek, and Chan 1991, 149-238). ). As a result, media coverage (or not) of feminist perspectives remained squarely within the conWnes of hegemonic liberal ideas about the basis of social reality (see Costain, Braunstein, and Berggren 1997; Huddy 1997; Bradley 2003), including a focus on the individual, an adversarial model of “truth” formation, and a conception of equality as formal equality (sameness).