'Feminism' in Print Media

Maitrayee Chaudhuri
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Maitrayee Chaudhuri: Centre for Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110 067

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2000, vol. 7, issue 2, 263-288

Abstract: Locating the issue of feminism in the institutional context of the print media, we discover two popular versions of feminism that the media promote, a feminism of choice' and a 'traditional feminism'. At the same time, they express hostility, both covert and not-so-covert, to organised women's movements. This simultaneous cooptation and backlash is seemingly a sign of a con sensus over some of feminism's demands, such as equality, while it also perverts the agenda of feminism itself—in the interests of a newly liberalised economy and a resurgent majoritarian religious political party movement.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1177/097152150000700208

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