Occupying a Third Place: Pro-Life Feminism, Legible Politics, and the Edge of Women's Liberation

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dc.contributor.advisorSoderlund, Gretchen
dc.contributor.authorStrait, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-08T15:48:57Z
dc.date.available2020-12-08T15:48:57Z
dc.date.issued2020-12-08
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation reads pro-life feminism as a break from traditional public perceptions of feminist thought. Through a variety of methodological analyses, it engages three case studies to answer (1) How does pro-life feminism persist as a movement and idea? And (2) What does the existence of pro-life feminists mean for the discursive boundaries of pro-choice feminism? This project included archival research on major feminist, anti-feminist, and pro-life feminist organizations, as well as long-form interviews with founding members of the pro-life feminist organizations. First, a critical discourse analysis of the 2017 Women’s March on Washington in regard to the removal of pro-life feminist group New Wave Feminists’ publicized removal as march organizers reveals discursive boundaries of contemporary feminist activism. Next, an evaluation of pro-life feminism’s coopting of “feminist foremothers,” Susan B. Anthony in particular, concludes that pro-life feminists utilize the mechanisms of producing history through commemoration to sustain a shared internal history that diverges from professional historical accounts of the suffragette. Finally, a cross-platform analysis of pro-life feminism’s online social life points to the future of fringe social organization through social media and the writable web. The study concludes with a discussion on the social space between public and private spheres (as theorized by Arendt, Habermas, Benhabib, and Butler) as the locus for pro-life feminism to persist while simultaneously undermining and constituting the philosophical boundaries of “mainstream” feminism.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/25908
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectCritical Media Studiesen_US
dc.subjectFeminismen_US
dc.subjectFeminist Historyen_US
dc.subjectFeminist Media Studiesen_US
dc.subjectNew Mediaen_US
dc.subjectReproductive Justiceen_US
dc.titleOccupying a Third Place: Pro-Life Feminism, Legible Politics, and the Edge of Women's Liberation
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineSchool of Journalism and Communication
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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