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{{Primary sources|date=January 2019}}{{Feminism sidebar}}{{italic title}}Victim feminism is a term used by some liberal and libertarian feminists in the 1990s to contrast their conceptions of feminism with other feminists who they view as reinforcing the idea that women are weak or lacking in agency, and therefore need to be protected.[1]Naomi Wolf contrasts victim feminism with power feminism. In her view, victim feminists present women as "beleaguered, fragile, intuitive angels" thus preventing women from taking responsibility for the power they actually have. Among various attributes of victim feminism, Wolf writes that it projects violence and competitiveness onto men or their patriarchy, while disregarding these qualities in women.[2]

Colin Grant described Wolf's power vs. victim dichotomy as being rooted in differences in how feminists address the liabilities that women suffer: while victim feminism simply dwells on them, power feminism seeks to identify them, with the purpose to challenge and overcome them. Grant also mentions that Wolf herself appears to have embraced both sides: her book The Beauty Myth seems to be from the victim feminism camp, but with Fire with Fire Wolf transitions to the power feminism side.[3]

This dichotomy of "victim" vs "power" was criticized for being defined too broadly so that Wolf's argument became lost.[4] In addition it lumps together diverse and radically different feminist schools, and this confusion aids antifeminists in their rhetoric.[5]

Victim feminism was described as a negative tendency in gender feminism. The more positive tendency recognizes the distinctiveness of women's experience and views (regarding sex, morality, etc.) as a positive alternative in contrast to that imposed by the "patriarchal" views of men.[3]

Naomi Wolf's Fire with Fire and Katie Roiphe's The Morning After, met with considerable media attention, were described as part of the backlash against the perceived domination of the feminist theme of victimization in the contemporary popular culture.[6]

One of Wolf's and Roiphe's arguments is that emphasis on victimization reinforces the stereotype of women being fragile and vulnerable. However it was argued that their solution in the form of "power feminism" is simplistic, because it fails to take into an account the systemic nature of women's subordination. Overall, the "victim vs. power" dichotomy was described as false and fundamentally inadequate, and leading to "problematic extremes".[6]

Gender studies scholar Rebecca Stringer writes that besides Wolf and Roiphe, other feminist authors have criticized the representation of women as victims and promoted a brand of agency-affirming feminism. These include Camille Paglia, Christina Hoff Sommers, Natasha Walter, and Rene Denfeld.[7] Each of these authors wrote popular books in the 1990s about feminism framed as calls to action like earlier works by Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer, but instead of agitating for political and economic change, they often argued in favour of the status quo.[7] According to Stringer, this trend of 1990s agitation against "victim feminism" is tied to the concurrent rise of neoliberalism.[7] At the same time, in her book Knowing Victims Stringer argues that these critiques of "victim feminism" do not affirm women's agency, but rather problematize women's capacity for agency and declare a lack of women's personal responsibility, which is, in Stringer's view, akin to victim blaming.[8]Elizabeth Schneider criticizes the dichotomy of feminism in the form of "victimhood vs. agency" from the legal standpoint, arguing that the view of women as either victims or agents is incomplete and static. She points out that, first, both concepts are too narrow and incomplete, and second, they are not the opposite poles of a spectrum, they are independent, but interrelated dimensions of women's experience.[9]

See also

  • Antifeminism
  • Gender equality
  • List of feminist theories

References

1. ^Citations* {{cite journal | last = Schneider | first = Elizabeth M. | author-link = Elizabeth Schneider | title = Feminism and the False Dichotomy of Victimization and Agency | journal = New York Law School Law Review | volume = 38 | page = 397 | url = http://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1356&context=faculty | year = 1993 |quote=An earlier version of this essay was presented at a panel on "Victim Feminism" at the Law and Society Association 1994 Annual Meeting.}} Also available as HeinOnline.* {{cite web |subscription=yes |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4206840.html |title=Feminist War Is Won |website=Chicago Sun-Times |date=29 December 1993 |first=Carole |last=Goldberg |quote=Fire announces a "genderquake" - a resurgence of female political power. And it says it's time to reject the "victim" feminism that casts women as powerless objects of male malevolence in favor of a new "power" feminism that enables women}}* {{cite web |subscription=yes |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-22596073.html |website=The Buffalo News |location=Buffalo, NY |title=Feminist Indifference to Children a Key Weakness |date=23 January 1994 |first=Joan |last=Beck |quote=most women don't fully understand yet that a "genderquake" has occurred. The time has come to shuck "victim feminism" and its sexist whining and embrace "power feminism," the better for women to reach out and claim their fair share}}* {{cite web |subscription=yes |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-14818730.html |title=Subject to Debate |website=The Nation |date=21 February 1994 |last=Pollitt |first=Katha |quote=The current attack on "victim feminism" is partly a class phenomenon, a kind of status anxiety.}}* {{cite journal |last=Abrams |first=Kathryn|title=Review: Songs of Innocence and Experience: Dominance Feminism in the University |journal=The Yale Law Journal | volume = 103 | issue = 6 |pages=1533–1560 |date=April 1994 | jstor = 797093 |quote= If these movements are not to work at cross-purposes, feminists in both genres ought to give thought to their inter-relations: writers like Roiphe, Paglia, and Naomi Wolf might have had more difficulty making a target out of victim feminism, for example, if academic feminists had ... }}* {{cite web |website=On the Issues |url=http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/1994summer/summer1994_1.php |date=Summer 1994 |title=Judy Chicago: The Artist Critics Love to Hate |first=Arlene |last=Raven |quote=Naomi Wolf, in her Fire with Fire, defines victim feminism as women seeking power "through an identity of powerlessness." Two features of victim feminism according to Wolf are: identifying with powerlessness even at the expense of taking responsibility for the power women do possess; and putting community first, hence being hostile toward individual achievement}}
2. ^{{cite book | last = Cole | first = Alyson Manda | chapter = Victims on a pedestal: anti-"victim feminism" and women's oppression | chapterurl = https://books.google.com/books?id=SwSKhV0TXCIC&pg=PA50 | title = The cult of true victimhood: from the war on welfare to the war on terror |pages= 50–51 | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, California | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780804754613 }}
3. ^1 {{cite book | last = Grant | first = Colin | chapter = A sex myth: feminist proposals | chapterurl = https://books.google.com/books?id=dNwGtVrKSXUC&pg=PA122 | title = Myths we live by |pages=122–124 | publisher = University of Ottawa Press | location = Ottawa, Ontario | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780776604442 }}
4. ^{{cite book | last = Henry | first = Astrid | chapter = Daughterhood is powerful: the emergence of feminism's third wave | chapterurl = https://books.google.com/books?id=W4U4Ss1OZGoC&pg=PA28 | title = Not my mother's sister: generational conflict and third-wave feminism | page = 28 | publisher = Indiana University Press | location = Bloomington, Indiana | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780253111227 }}
5. ^{{cite book | last = Hammer | first = Rhonda | chapter = Culture wars over feminism: Paglia, Wolf, and Hoff Sommers | chapterurl = https://books.google.com/books?id=CVZdU_trRdQC&pg=PA61 | title = Antifeminism and family terrorism: a critical feminist perspective | pages = 61–62 | publisher = Rowman & Littlefield | location = Lanham, Maryland | year = 2002 | isbn = 9780742510500 }}
6. ^1 {{cite book | last = Schneider | first = Elizabeth M. | author-link = Elizabeth Schneider | chapter = Beyond victimization and agency | chapterurl = https://books.google.com/books?id=F0jrQ28IpZgC&pg=PA74 | title = Battered women & feminist lawmaking | pages = 74–75 | publisher = Yale University Press | location = New Haven | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780300128932 }}
7. ^1 2 {{cite book | last = Stringer | first = Rebecca | chapter = Victims left, right and centre: constructing 'victim feminism' |chapterurl= https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QK3cAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA17 | title = Knowing Victims: Feminism, agency and victim politics in neoliberal times |pages=17–18 | publisher = Taylor and Francis | location = Hoboken | year = 2014 |language=en | isbn = 9781134746019 }}
8. ^Stringer, p. 20
9. ^{{cite journal | last = Schneider | first = Elizabeth M. | author-link = Elizabeth Schneider | title = Feminism and the False Dichotomy of Victimization and Agency | journal = New York Law School Law Review | volume = 38 | pages = 387–399 | url = http://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1356&context=faculty | year = 1993}} Also available as HeinOnline.
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