Letting Go - Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism (Paperback)

At a time when women are being exhorted to ""lean in"" and work harder to get ahead, Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism encourages both women and men to ""let go"" instead. The book explores alternatives to the belief that individual achievement, accumulation, and attention-seeking are the road to happiness and satisfaction in life. Letting go demands a radical recognition that the values, relationships, and structures of our neoliberal (competitive, striving, accumulating, consuming, exploiting, oppressive) society are harmful both on a personal level and, especially important, on a social and environmental level. There is a huge difference between letting go and ""chilling out."" In a lean-in society, self-care is promoted as something women and men should do to learn how to ""relax"" and find a comfortable work-life balance. By contrast, a feminist letting-go and its attendant self-care have the potential to be a radical act of awakening to social and environmental injustice and a call to activism.

General

Imprint:	Vanderbilt University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2015
Editors:	Donna King • Catherine G. Valentine
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8265-2066-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	0-8265-2066-9
Barcode:	9780826520661

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