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Wolf, Naomi
American writer and intellectual. With her book The Beauty Myth she became a leading figure in a new wave of feminism in the 1990ies. In recent years she has been working for progressive and liberal politics.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf, http://www.americanfreedomcampaign.org/
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Naomi Wolf on reactionary feminists in the US
In the US there is a significant conservative current of feminism supported by the right-wing Republicans Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, the writer Naomi Wolf explains in the left-leaning daily Público: "The second reason that Bachmann and Palin appeal to so many Americans - and this should not be underestimated, either - has to do with a serious historical misreading of feminism. Because feminism in the 1960's and 1970's was articulated via the institutions of the left - in Britain, it was often allied with the labor movement, and in America, it was reborn in conjunction with the emergence of the New Left - there is an assumption that feminism itself must be leftist. In fact, feminism is philosophically as much in harmony with conservative, and especially libertarian, values - and in some ways even more so. The core of feminism is individual choice and freedom, and it is these strains that are being sounded now more by the Tea Party movement than by the left. ... Many of these women are socially conservative, strongly supportive of the armed forces, and religious - and yet they crave equality as strongly as any leftist vegetarian in Birkenstocks."
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More from the press review on the subject » Social movements, » Elections, » Gender equality, » U.S.
Dear world, please stop us!
American intellectual Naomi Wolf writes in Dagens Nyheter newspaper about the many images and reports of torture and war crimes commited by Americans, which most of her countrymen disavow. Openly doubting her feelings of patriotism, she cries out to the world: please, stop us! "Americans worry about their weight and then go shopping," she writes. "We have become a lawless nation, a threat to international law and stability in the civilised countries that were once our allies. For good reason we figure on Canada's list of brutal countries that use torture. ... We Americans are not able to help ourselves. Like drug addicts or mental patients who refuse treatment, we depend on our friends to act. Remember that we have seen better times. Take steps to save us and the world from ourselves. Perhaps then I will be able to love my country once more."
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