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Feminism Between the Sheets: Sexual Attitudes Among Feminists, Nonfeminists, and Egalitarians
- Source :
- Psychology of Women Quarterly. 31:157-163
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2007.
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Abstract
- To better understand the relation of feminist identification to sexuality, we compared the attitudes of feminist, egalitarian, and nonfeminist undergraduate women ( N = 342) in five domains: (a) erotophilia (one's positive affective or evaluative responses to sexual stimuli), (b) sexual assertiveness, (c) perceived self-efficacy for safer sex, (d) sexual satisfaction, and (e) support of the sexual double standard. Significant results of ANOVA analyses included: Feminists were more erotophilic than egalitarians and nonfeminists, egalitarians were the most confident in their ability to be assertive with a partner regarding condom use, and egalitarians and nonfeminists were more supportive of a traditional sexual double standard than feminists. Consistent with Zucker (2004) , we argue that a distinctive characteristic of egalitarians is that their acceptance of feminist values with regard to their own sexual lives does not translate into a critique of gendered sexual norms for other women.
- Subjects :
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05 social sciences
Poison control
050109 social psychology
Human sexuality
Social value orientations
humanities
Feminism
law.invention
Gender Studies
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Condom
050903 gender studies
law
Erotophilia
Double standard
Developmental and Educational Psychology
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Assertiveness
0509 other social sciences
Psychology
Social psychology
General Psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14716402 and 03616843
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Psychology of Women Quarterly
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ab5f56a4176f5357971980c5e37440a9