"Feminism" as ideology: Sarah palin's anti-feminist feminism and ideology critique

Abstract

The point of this essay is threefold: to describe the main tenets of Marx's theory of ideology by critically engaging in the work of Marx and Engels, to flesh out the claim that Sarah Palin's "feminism" works ideologically as Marx and Engels describe, and consequently, to demonstrate that ideology critique is important intellectual work for feminist Marxist scholars. As I suggest in the conclusion, this is work that should inform scholars' political activism.