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Confidence culture, Shani Orgad & Rosalind Gill

Label
Confidence culture
Title
Confidence culture
Statement of responsibility
Shani Orgad & Rosalind Gill
Creator
Contributor
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"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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1972-
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Orgad, Shani
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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Gill, Rosalind
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  • Self-esteem in women
  • Self-confidence
  • Women
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Feminism
  • Confidence
  • Feminism
  • Self-confidence
  • Self-esteem in women
  • Women
  • Women
Label
Confidence culture, Shani Orgad & Rosalind Gill
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-227) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Body Confidence -- Confidence at Work -- Confident Relating -- The "Double Whammy" of the Confidence Culture: Mothering -- Confidence without Borders -- Beyond Confidence
Control code
1246353424
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xii, 241 pages
Isbn
9781478017608
Lccn
2021019043
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1246353424
Label
Confidence culture, Shani Orgad & Rosalind Gill
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-227) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Body Confidence -- Confidence at Work -- Confident Relating -- The "Double Whammy" of the Confidence Culture: Mothering -- Confidence without Borders -- Beyond Confidence
Control code
1246353424
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xii, 241 pages
Isbn
9781478017608
Lccn
2021019043
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1246353424

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