Young women’s negotiations of gender, the body and the labour market in a post-feminist context.
This article explores the ways the body and femininity is understood and negotiated in relation to employment. This article draws on interview data from an Australian study which aimed to explore what it meant to be a ‘young woman’ in neoliberal late modernity, and in relation to the paradoxes of po...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 26; no. 5; pp. 502 - 517 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct2017
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