Confidence culture
Body Confidence -- Confidence at Work -- Confident Relating -- The "Double Whammy" of the Confidence Culture: Mothering -- Confidence without Borders -- Beyond Confidence.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Durham, London
Duke University Press
2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Body Confidence -- Confidence at Work -- Confident Relating -- The "Double Whammy" of the Confidence Culture: Mothering -- Confidence without Borders -- Beyond Confidence. "In Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at women to "love your body" and "believe in yourself" imply that psychological blocks hold women back rather than entrenched social injustices. Interrogating the prominence of confidence in contemporary discourse about body image, workplace, relationships, motherhood, and international development, Orgad and Gill draw on Foucault's notion of technologies of self to demonstrate how "confidence culture" demands of women near-constant introspection and vigilance in the service of self-improvement. They argue that while confidence messaging may feel good, it does not address structural and systemic oppression. Rather, confidence culture suggests that women-along with people of color, the disabled, and other marginalized groups-are responsible for their own conditions. Rejecting confidence culture's remaking of feminism along individualistic and neoliberal lines, Orgad and Gill explore alternative articulations of feminism that go beyond the confidence imperative"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 241 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781478014539 978-1-4780-1453-9 9781478017608 978-1-4780-1760-8 |