FEMINIST ATTITUDES IN TIMES OF DEPOLITICIZATION OF WOMENS ISSUES

Based on data from Denmark from the end of the 1970s and 1980s the pap er analyzes the development of feminist attitudes during a period char acterized, on the one hand, by a high, and still growing, integration of women into the labour market and political life, and on the other, by an organizational decline of the women's movement and a decline in the politicization of women's issues. At the end of the 1970s, feminis t attitudes, especially among women, were unidimensionally structured and closely related to other political factors. The most feminist were the young, the well-educated, the politically interested, and left-wi ng women. At the end of the 1980s, feminist attitudes were at the same level as ten years before, but different dimensions had emerged, a so cial and political dispersion of feminist attitudes had taken place, a nd feminism no longer influenced political behaviour. In many respects , the experience of the United States in the 1970s was reversed in Den mark in the 1980s.