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No, It's Not a Joke: The Christian Right's Appropriation of Feminism

The media frenzy surrounding Sarah Palin has brought attention and popular validation to the burgeoning conservative feminist movement, which for many appears absurdly paradoxical because of its fusion of seemingly contradictory ideological discourses: feminism, neoliberalism, and Christianity. Like other ideologies, these too must adapt to contemporary fashion and, even more important, to the pluralistic and fragmented nature of postmodernism. In this analysis of the Christian Right women's movement, I assert that Christian Right women are constructing a postmodern consciousness shaped from contradictory discourses (conservative Christian and feminist, for example) while simultaneously insisting on the organic coherence of their collective identity. Although it seems counterintuitive, this conservative strategy of “pick and choose” has helped the Christian Right frame much political conversation within their own terms, and this phenomenon is effecting what may be an irreversible change within all ideologies involved.