Revisiting Austerity: Queer Aesthetics and Moral Disciplining.
Merriam Webster named austerity the 2010 Word of the Year, indexing its spectacular entrance into the vernacular during the Great Recession of the 2000s. This discourse often constructed austerity as a European, novel, and economic phenomenon. This essay contends with such myths, by locating its ana...
| Publicado en: | Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 101 - 132 |
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University of Nebraska Press
2025
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