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J ournal of International Women's Studies Volume 4 Issue 2 Harvesting o ur Streng ths: Third Wave Article 8 Feminism and Women’s Studies Apr-2003 From Suffragist to Apologist : The Loss of Feminist Politics in a Politically Correct Patriarchy Ashleigh Harris Recommended Citation Harris, Ashleigh (2003). From Suffragist to Apologist : The Loss of Feminist Politics in a Politically Correct Patriarchy. J ournal of International Women's Studies, 4(2), 91-99. Available at : http://vc.bri /jiws/vol4/iss2/8 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bri gewater State University, Bri gewater, Massachusetts. This journal and its contents may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. ©2003 Journal of International Women’s Studies. From Suffragist to Apologist: The Loss of Feminist Politics in a Politically Correct Patriarchy By Ashleigh Harrisi Abstract This article discusses the ways in which feminist politics have been dissolved since the 1980s, most notably in the popular cultural sphere, so as to make feminism appear anachronistic. It considers how various discourses and texts have sought to efface the political impetus of feminism through claims to political correctness. Young women are thus interpolated into a more insidious patriarchy that re-inscribes female shame, guilt, passivity and silence in both professional and personal contexts, at the same as it espouses the discourse of equal rights. Many are not only apologizing for