FEMINIST ATTITUDES - SOCIAL INTERESTS OR POLITICAL-IDEOLOGY

Based on Danish data from the end of the 1980s, the paper analyzes the effect on feminist attitudes of self-interest, ideology, and the demo graphic factors, education and age. One result is that the explanation differs according to the kind of attitudes investigated. When the obj ect of attitudes is close to the everyday lives of ordinary men and wo men, such as gender role attitudes, the attitudes are determined by ag e, education, and interests in addition to political ideology, whereas more ''distant'' attitudes are only determined by political ideology. Moreover, the effect of the explanatory factors are in all cases stro nger for women than for men.