| Sumario: | This article discusses the conspiracy theory in sociological perspective. The language of conspiracy establishes a series of implicit divisions within American feminism. Conspiracy theory as suggested by the author can become the site of an unspoken intellectual elitism, producing a situation in which 'academic' (cultural studies) feminism ignores, repudiates and contains its 'popular' other, by which he means that tradition of feminism is typified by writers like Betty Friedan and Naomi Wolf. For the feminine mystique to have 'brainwashed' American women of nonsexual human purposes for more than fifteen years, it must have filled real needs in those who seized on it for others and those who accepted it for themselves.
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