A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Feminist Beliefs and Feminist Identity Development Among College Women Survivors of Gender-Based Violence

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 772-791
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Valentine ◽  
Julia R. Gefter ◽  
Sarah M. Bankoff ◽  
Brian A. Rood ◽  
David W. Pantalone
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
College Women ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Feminist Identity ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Feminist Identity Development ◽  
Gender Based

“I Became a Lioness”

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer K. Frederick ◽  
Abigail J. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
The United States ◽  
Feminist Identity ◽  
Feminist Identity Development ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Feminist identity is a powerful predictor of activism on behalf of women. However, little is known about how feminist identity develops worldwide, either in terms of social identity theory or the stage model of feminist identity development. Moreover, some women’s movement advocates view feminism with suspicion, as focused only on concerns of a narrow group of women. For this study, 45 women’s movement activists from China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States were interviewed as part of the Global Feminisms Project. Participants’ personal narratives were examined to identify themes activists used to describe their own feminist identity development. The six themes that emerged were education, social relationships, gender-based injustice, violence, activism, and emotion. Alternating least squares analysis of the concurrence of these themes revealed four pathways to feminist identity: (1) education, (2) social relationships and gender-based injustice, (3) violence, and (4) activism and emotion. These findings suggest that individuals come to feminist identity in different ways. Instructors aiming to encourage understanding of women’s movement activism should point to these different pathways, and feminist activists seeking to promote feminist identity development should consider different approaches to successfully engaging people. Online slides and a podcast for instructors who want to use this article for teaching are available on PWQ's website at http://journals.sagepub.com/page/pwq/suppl/index

Silencing the Self and Feminist Identity Development

2002 ◽  
Vol 90 (3_part_2) ◽  
pp. 1075-1083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tricia H. Witte ◽  
Martin F. Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
College Women ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
The Self ◽  
Feminist Identity ◽  
Women's Development ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Feminist Identity Development ◽  
Women's Oppression

The present study investigated the relation between Jack's 1991 concept of “silencing the self” and Downing and Roush's 1985 stage model of feminist identity development among college women. Analysis indicated that passively accepting women's oppression and adhering to traditional gender roles in interpersonal relationships (Passive Acceptance) was related to silencing the self. These results have important implications for silencing the self and women's development. Specifically, these findings may encourage many young women to acknowledge women's oppression and question the traditional gender roles that promote submission and thereby decrease the potential risk for self-silencing.

Silencing the Self and Feminist Identity Development

2002 ◽  
Vol 90 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1075-1083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tricia H. Witte ◽  
Martin F Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
College Women ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
The Self ◽  
Feminist Identity ◽  
Women's Development ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Feminist Identity Development ◽  
Women's Oppression

The present study investigated the relation between Jack's 1991 concept of “silencing the self” and Downing and Roush's 1985 stage model of feminist identity development among college women. Analysis indicated that passively accepting women's oppression and adhering to traditional gender roles in interpersonal relationships (Passive Acceptance) was related to silencing the self. These results have important implications for silencing the self and women's development. Specifically, these findings may encourage many young women to acknowledge women's oppression and question the traditional gender roles that promote submission and thereby decrease the potential risk for self-silencing.

scholarly journals Punishing Survivors and Criminalizing Survivorship: A Feminist Intersectional Approach to Migrant Justice in the Crimmigration System

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (14) ◽  
pp. 67-89
Author(s):  
Salina Abji
Keyword(s):  
Women Survivors ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Analytical Strategy ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
The Us ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender

Scholars have identified crimmigration – or the criminalization of “irregular” migration in law – as a key issue affecting migrant access to justice in contemporary immigrant-receiving societies. Yet the gendered and racialized implications of crimmigration for diverse migrant populations remains underdeveloped in this literature. This study advances a feminist intersectional approach to crimmigration and migrant justice in Canada. I add to recent research showing how punitive immigration controls disproportionately affect racialized men from the global south, constituting what Golash-Boza and Hondagneu-Sotelo have called a “gendered racial removal program” (2013). In my study, I shift analytical attention to consider the effects of the contemporary crimmigration system on migrant women survivors of gender-based violence. While such cases constitute a small sub-group within a larger population of migrants in detention, nevertheless scholarly attention to this group can expose the multiple axes along which state power is enacted – an analytical strategy that foundational scholars like Crenshaw (1991) used to theorize “structural intersectionality” in the US. In focusing on crimmigration in the Canadian context, I draw attention to the growing nexus between migration, security, and gender-based violence that has emerged alongside other processes of crimmigration. I then provide a case analysis of the 2013 death while in custody of Lucía Dominga Vega Jiménez, an “undocumented” migrant woman from Mexico. My analysis illustrates how migrant women’s strategies to survive gender-based violence are re-cast as grounds for their detention and removal, constituting what I argue is a criminalization of survivorship.The research overall demonstrates the centrality of gendered and racialized structural violence in crimmigration processes by challenging more universalist approaches to migrant justice.

Feminist Identity Development Measures

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Moradi ◽  
Linda Mezydlo Subich
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Internal Consistency Reliability ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Feminist Identity ◽  
Female Therapist ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Feminist Identity Development ◽  
Acceptable Internal Consistency

Reliability and validity of three current instruments (Feminist Identity Scale [FIS], Feminist Identity Development Scale [FIDS]J Feminist Identity Composite [FIC]) used to operationalize Downing and Roush's model of feminist identity development were compared. A sample of 245 women completed all three instruments, and a separate sample of 35 women repeated them over a 2-week interval. Only the FIC had acceptable internal consistency reliability for all subscales. Subscale stability for all instruments generally was moderate, except for Active Commitment. Subscale relations with perceived sexist events, self-esteem, social desirability, and preference for a male or female therapist generally were supportive of discriminant and convergent validity for all instruments. Content validity based on three judges' item evaluations suggested the FIDS fared best overall Finally, confirmatory factor analysis procedures did not support definitively the structural validity of any of the instruments, but trends suggested the FIC, and perhaps the FIDS, were superior to the FIS.

scholarly journals ARE ALL WOMEN FEMINISTS? A CRITICAL VIEW ON LADY BIRD (2017) FILM

Lire Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Gesang Manggala Nugraha Putra ◽  
Trisnavia Elma Kharisa
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Feminist Identity ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Feminist Identity Development ◽  
Do So ◽  
Held Back

Introduction: In the study of film as media, there is a growing tendency on labelling films with female leads and female production crews as feminist films. Objective: This study aims to test such claim in the film Lady Bird (2017). Method: To do so, the study employs Feminist Identity Development Model by Downing and Roush to look at the main lead of the film, along with analyses on the film’s narrative and cinematographic aspects. Findings: The study finds that the female lead fails to undergo all the five stages of Feminist Identity Development Model. The study further explores that her advancement through the stages is being held back by her dependence to her family and those around her. Conclusion: The study, then, suggests some further inquiries on the interrelatedness of age and feminism.

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