In this Book
- Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
summary
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.
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.
Table of Contents
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- Part One: Theoretical Perspectives
- 3. Leaning In and Letting Go
- pp. 47-56
- Part Two: Personal Essays
- 6. The Gold Pen
- pp. 81-90
- 7. Whether Willing or Unwilling
- pp. 91-102
- 8. Letting Go
- pp. 103-112
- 9. When Enough Is Enough
- pp. 113-124
- Part Three: Ethnographies
- 10. What to Let Go
- pp. 127-138
- 11. Stay-at-Home Fathers
- pp. 139-150
- 12. From Retail Banking to Credit Counseling
- pp. 151-160
- 13. Keeping Up Appearances
- pp. 161-172
- 14. Letting Go and Having Fun
- pp. 173-184
- Part Four: Ecological Perspectives
- 15. Letting Go and Getting Real
- pp. 187-200
- 16. Consuming Violence
- pp. 201-210
- 17. Growing Food, Growing Justice
- pp. 211-222
- Part Five: Visionary Feminism
- 18. Dig Deep
- pp. 225-234
- Contributors
- pp. 235-238
Additional Information
ISBN
9780826520678
Related ISBN(s)
9780826520654, 9780826520661
MARC Record
OCLC
914714994
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2015-07-31
Language
English
Open Access
No