Article The Right’s Woman Problem
Article The Right’s Woman Problem
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Quote:Conservatives have always let women into the vanguard on a conditional basis. A right-wing woman earns some status by conforming to gender norms, and she often finds the most professional traction by defending her own subordination. Phyllis Schlafly was a genuine anti-feminist, invested in her definition of the family; but in taking up that fight, she “foreclosed her chance” at the foreign policy career she’d wanted, historian Nicole Hemmer argues. For the women of the White House, power still comes with a tradeoff. Their roles hinge not only on their competence, or their commitment to Trump, but their compliant femininity.
I'd argue that in the current US administration, commitment to Trump is huge, but in general, yes, that compliance to femininity is required. Conservatism is, after all, conservative.
Quote:But valuable is not the same as equal. To the average trad, men are men and women are women, ipso facto, we have different desires and different roles to play. We cannot imagine a world that contradicts our nature, they say. And if a woman accepts this, if she believes she can’t have anything because she can’t have it all, a little authority might sound preferable to complete dispossession. She walks into a trap, locks it shut, and tells her sisters and daughters to do exactly the same.
This article is US focused, obviously, but I can't think of a country or culture where this also doesn't apply to the right.
Quote:Conservatives have always let women into the vanguard on a conditional basis. A right-wing woman earns some status by conforming to gender norms, and she often finds the most professional traction by defending her own subordination. Phyllis Schlafly was a genuine anti-feminist, invested in her definition of the family; but in taking up that fight, she “foreclosed her chance” at the foreign policy career she’d wanted, historian Nicole Hemmer argues. For the women of the White House, power still comes with a tradeoff. Their roles hinge not only on their competence, or their commitment to Trump, but their compliant femininity.
I'd argue that in the current US administration, commitment to Trump is huge, but in general, yes, that compliance to femininity is required. Conservatism is, after all, conservative.
Quote:But valuable is not the same as equal. To the average trad, men are men and women are women, ipso facto, we have different desires and different roles to play. We cannot imagine a world that contradicts our nature, they say. And if a woman accepts this, if she believes she can’t have anything because she can’t have it all, a little authority might sound preferable to complete dispossession. She walks into a trap, locks it shut, and tells her sisters and daughters to do exactly the same.
This article is US focused, obviously, but I can't think of a country or culture where this also doesn't apply to the right.