The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism.
In this paper, I argue that we are currently witnessing the emergence of neoliberal feminism in the USA, which is most clearly articulated in two highly publicized and widely read ‘feminist manifestos’: Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In (a New York Times best-seller) and Anne-Marie Slaughter's ‘Why Women St...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 418 - 438 |
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