Author: Bay-Cheng, LY; Zucker, AN
Abstract: To better understand the relation of feminist identification to sexuality, we compared the attitudes of feminist, egalitarian, and nonfeminist undergraduate women ( N = 342) in five domains: ( a) erotophilia ( one's positive affective or evaluative responses to sexual stimuli), ( b) sexual assertiveness, ( c) perceived self-efficacy for safer sex, ( d) sexual satisfaction, and ( e) support of the sexual double standard. Significant results of ANOVA analyses included: Feminists were more erotophilic than egalitarians and nonfeminists, egalitarians were the most confident in their ability to be assertive with a partner regarding condom use, and egalitarians and nonfeminists were more supportive of a traditional sexual double standard than feminists. Consistent with Zucker ( 2004), we argue that a distinctive characteristic of egalitarians is that their acceptance of feminist values with regard to their own sexual lives does not translate into a critique of gendered sexual norms for other women.
Source: PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN QUARTERLY
Publication Year: 2007
Volume: 31
Issue nr: 2
Pages: 157 - 163