Creating A More Inclusive Feminist Identity Development Model
Conference Strand
Identity Formation
Abstract
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has highlighted identity differences among feminists. Downing and Roush’s (1984) feminist identity development model was based on privileging White women but today’s young feminists are more focused on oppression of all targeted groups and more inclusive of women of color and men. They rejected Clinton’s feminist identity. We need to develop a new feminist identity model.
Evidence
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Format
Individual Presentations
Biographical Sketch
Kathy Evans, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, has been an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina for 21 years. Her publications and presentations focus on multicultural, feminist, and career issues. She is a co-author of Introduction to Feminist Therapy: Strategies for Social and Individual Change.
Tiffany M. Bordonada is a doctoral candidate in the Counselor Education and Supervision program at the University of South Carolina. She has a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling and Master of Public Administration from West Virginia University. Her past work experiences include working with adults with disabilities in an outpatient setting and adolescent sex offenders in a residential setting. The presenters’ research interests consist of caregiver issues, people with disabilities, and well-being.
Katherine A. Feather is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a doctoral candidate in the Counselor Education & Supervision program at the University of South Carolina. The presenter has an extensive history working with children and families with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and has published and presented on this topic at the regional, national, and international level. Katherine is currently the mental health counselor at the SC Commission for the Blind in the adjustment to blindness program where she assists adults in adjusting to their visual disability. Her research interests ASD, school-to-career transition of students with disabilities, and psychosocial adjustment and family adaptation to a disability.
Dr. Tiffany Rogers is a Lecturer in the Counselor Education program in the Department of Education and Human Development at Clemson University. She completed her Ph.D. in Counselor Education at the University of South Carolina and received both her master’s degree in Counselor Education and her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Georgia Southern University. She is a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC) and has worked in the fields of victim advocacy, addictions, college counseling, and adolescent in-patient treatment. Her research interests include young adult self-efficacy, social justice and advocacy, feminism, and intimate partner violence
Location
Room 218/220
Start Date
2-17-2017 2:30 PM
End Date
2-17-2017 3:45 PM
Recommended Citation
Evans, Kathy M. Ph.D; Feather, Katherine A.; Bordonada, Tiffany; and Rogers, Tiffany, "Creating A More Inclusive Feminist Identity Development Model" (2017). National Cross-Cultural Counseling and Education Conference for Research, Action, and Change. 10.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ccec/2017/2017/10
Creating A More Inclusive Feminist Identity Development Model
Room 218/220
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has highlighted identity differences among feminists. Downing and Roush’s (1984) feminist identity development model was based on privileging White women but today’s young feminists are more focused on oppression of all targeted groups and more inclusive of women of color and men. They rejected Clinton’s feminist identity. We need to develop a new feminist identity model.
Description
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign has highlighted the ideological and identity differences among those who identify as feminists. It would seem that the first woman representing a major political party running for president would be a reason for celebration of all those who identify as feminists. However, Hillary Clinton and her candidacy appears to represent feminists from her generation (the second wave of feminism--1960’s – 1980’s. These views are reflected in the Feminist Identity Development Model published in 1985 by Downing and Roush. This era of feminists sought to privilege women’s experience by focused mostly on gaining rights and access for White women. The 3rd (1980-2013) and 4th (2013-present) waves of feminists are more focused on oppression, in general, and more inclusive of women of color and men. The two philosophical approaches have clashed and the most obvious result of that clash is that many younger women reject the feminist ideas of the Democratic presidential nominee. Women of color rejected that model from its inception and were more likely to be identified as Womanists or Hip Hop feminists. Ironically, based on philosophy, all feminists and womanists oppose oppression of all kinds and all feminist promote social justice. Perhaps now is the time to work on revising or creating a new feminist identity model to be reflective of all feminist philosophies.
This session will be devoted to presenting idea of a new feminist identity model and engaging a dialog with participants to create that new model. The goals of the session will be to a) identify developmental processes of millennial feminist, womanists and men b) synthesize those processes with the Downing and Roush model c) create a framework this new model of feminist identity. .