Letting Go (eBook)

Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism

Donna King, Catherine G. Valentine (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
256 Seiten
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-0373-2 (ISBN)

Infos

At a time when women are being exhorted to "e;lean in"e; and work harder to get ahead, Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism encourages both women and men to "e;let go"e; 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 "e;chilling out."e; In a lean-in society, self-care is promoted as something women and men should do to learn how to "e;relax"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 180 x 180 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Community Organizing • Gender Studies • Sociology
• ISBN-10: 0-8265-0373-X / 082650373X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8265-0373-2 / 9780826503732