Tiana Mikes Project - Alaska Pacific University

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means to be woman, next step would be emancipation for the movement to master
collectively. (p. 706 & 707)
Research of Feminist and Nonfeminist Women
In 2000, Mary Craword, Carolyn Hoffner, and Miriam Liss sought to discover the
relationship between a woman’s own feminist ideologies and her views of what the
typical feminist believes by surveying 71 women from three colleges. The participants
completed a 60-item feminist perspectives scale based on their opinion and then again
assuming how the typical feminist would respond. They found that feminist women had
higher liberal feminism, radical feminism, socialist feminism, and womanism scores and
lower conservatism scores than nonfeminist women. Cultural feminism was the sole
ideology that failed to differentiate the feminist and nonfeminist. Their participants
viewed feminism as a fusion of ideologies unable to be bound and stereotyped.
Furthermore, they found that the participants who had taken classes regarding women’s
issues were more likely to identify as a feminist.
In 2001, Karen Asquith, Theresa Doyon, and Bernice Lott explored personal
experiences of interpersonal sexist discrimination based on the data obtained by
undergraduate researchers; the data were survey questions from 262 participants derived
from the Schedule of Sexist Events. Their last question asked if the participant felt their
life would have been different in the past year if they had not been treated in sexist and
unfair ways; they found that age played a significant role; younger respondents believed
that their life would have been different. In addition, they found that the younger women