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Association: Name: NCA 94th Annual Convention URL: http://www.natcom.org
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Borda, Jennifer. "What Does a Feminist Look Like?: Images and Iconography of Unconventional Women" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 94th Annual Convention, TBA, San Diego, CA, <Not Available>. 2009-10-27 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p257184_index.html>

Borda, J. L. "What Does a Feminist Look Like?: Images and Iconography of Unconventional Women" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 94th Annual Convention, TBA, San Diego, CA <Not Available>. 2009-10-27 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p257184_index.html

Publication Type: Invited Paper Abstract: According to Robert Hariman on the blog No Caption Needed, “iconic images are an important example of how modern public life depends on the appropriation and recirculation of images.” I argue in this essay that modern women’s movements also have depended on such appropriation and recirculation of feminist images to make meaning for both adherents and antagonists alike. Through a visual analysis of various images of feminist leaders, scholars, and activists over the last 150 years, I demonstrate that feminism as both a term and a movement has come to be defined through an iconography of unconventional women that represent marginalized subcultures rather than through more mainstream images of women who practice feminism within the dominant culture. I conclude that these images fail to invite identification from women as a general category (representing half of the population) because often they position feminists as radical outsiders strident in their denial of femininity and womanhood. The rhetorical implications of this established iconography of feminism include the devaluation of feminist discourses within popular culture, and an explicit rejection of the feminist label by contemporary women, many of whom implicitly support feminist ideologies.

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