Feminismus: "a word that for 40 years has been kicked around"

"Take 'feminism' itself, a word that for 40 years has been kicked around by the right, especially by women on the right. The word, which indicates a movement that enfranchised and liberated women - professionally, personally, socially, sexually and economically - was, in the hands of its opponents, efficiently inverted to indicate sexlessness, humorlessness, and something fundamentally unfeminine".

Rebecca Traister: "Sarah Palin's grab for feminism". In: salon.com, 1. Juni 2010, http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/06/01/palin_feminism (Hinweis von Diedre Conkling)