"I Am Not a Feminist, but...": College Women, Feminism, and Negative Experiences

orientations. Our findings show that negative experiences (e.g., sexual harassment and gendered violence) positively affect respondent supportforfeminism. Substituting the label feminist for the label movement results in more negative evaluations. We conclude that the typical dichotomies offeminist/antifeminist andfeminist/postfeminist mask the complexity of young women's attitudes toward the women's movement.