L’électoralisation du féminisme : un nouvel antiféminisme ordinaire

Abstract

This contribution brings together discourse theory, textual linguistics and gender studies. Through a discursive analysis of some feminist and anti-feminist stances, she interrogates the representations and attitudes about feminism, considered as a state to be incorporated and negotiated. It shows that the media circulation of non-situated reports to feminism catalyzes a discursively constructed ordinary anti-feminism as natural as gender binarity. It also suggests that, at the beginning of the twenty-first century and under the influence of this ordinary anti-feminism, feminism is being “electoralized”: feminist values and principles are more or less rated, and the opposition between feminism and anti-feminism is deafened by the opposition between feminism “à la mode” and feminism “has been.” More generally, this contribution intends to argue that feminism should be problematized and repoliticized by situating its various forms of incorporation in socio-cultural contexts and life courses so as to stimulate creative singular appropriations, freed from sclerosing prejudices.

Keywords

• discourse analysis
• feminism
• antifeminism
• identity
• representations
• bodies