Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research Volume 18 Article 7 2019 Kellyanne Conway and Postfeminism: 'The Desert of the Real' L. Shelley Rawlins Southern Illinois University Carbondale,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/kaleidoscope Recommended Citation Rawlins, L. Shelley (2019) "Kellyanne Conway and Postfeminism: 'The Desert of the Real'," Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research: Vol. 18 , Article 7. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/kaleidoscope/vol18/iss1/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Kellyanne Conway and Postfeminism: 'The Desert of the Real' Cover Page Footnote Acknowledgements: I thank my advisor and friend Dr. Craig Gingrich-Philbrook for his invaluable input on this work. I thank my mother Sandy Rawlins for sharing inspiring conversations with me and for her keen editing eye. I appreciate the reviewers’ helpful feedback and thank Kaleidoscope’s editorial staff, especially Shelby Swafford and Alex Davenport, for facilitating this publication process. L. Shelley Rawlins is a Doctoral Candidate at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale This article is available in Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/kaleidoscope/vol18/iss1/7 Kellyanne Conway and Postfeminism: ‘The Desert of the Real’ L. Shelley Rawlins Postfeminism is a slippery, contested, ambivalent, and inherently contradictory term – deployed alternately as an “empowering” identity label and critical theoretical lens.