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Lean Out
Dawn Foster
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Description for Lean Out
Paperback. Num Pages: 70 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFSJ1; KJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 368.
In her powerful debut work Lean Out, acclaimed journalist Dawn Foster unpicks how the purportedly feminist message of Sandberg's book neatly exempts patriarchy, capitalism and business from any responsibility for changing the position of women in contemporary culture. It looks at the rise of a corporate '1% feminism', and at how feminism has been defanged and depoliticised at a time when women have borne the brunt of the financial crash and the gap between rich and poor is widening faster than ever.Surveying business, media, culture and politics, Foster asks whether this 'trickledown' feminism offers any material gain for women collectively, ... Read more
In her powerful debut work Lean Out, acclaimed journalist Dawn Foster unpicks how the purportedly feminist message of Sandberg's book neatly exempts patriarchy, capitalism and business from any responsibility for changing the position of women in contemporary culture. It looks at the rise of a corporate '1% feminism', and at how feminism has been defanged and depoliticised at a time when women have borne the brunt of the financial crash and the gap between rich and poor is widening faster than ever.Surveying business, media, culture and politics, Foster asks whether this 'trickledown' feminism offers any material gain for women collectively, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Watkins Media United Kingdom
Number of pages
70
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910924020
SKU
V9781910924020
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About Dawn Foster
Dawn Foster is a writer and journalist. She is a columnist for The Guardian, and writes for the London Review of Books, New York Times, Dissent and Prospect, among other publications. She won the IBP Young Journalist of the Year award in 2014. Her book Lean Out (Repeater, 2015) was shortlisted for the 2017 Bread and Roses Award and her ... Read more
Reviews for Lean Out
Rarely does 'essential reading' really mean that you urgently need to read a book. But Lean Out is different: the argument that a society that promotes 'aspiration' must rely on outliers is just one of its many gems. There is a danger that corporate feminism will enter academia and will not be recognised for the aberration that it is.Lean Out ... Read more