Confidence culture /

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Author / Creator:	Orgad, Shani, 1972- author.
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xii, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Self-esteem in women. Self-confidence. Women -- Psychology. Women -- Conduct of life. Confidence. Feminism. Confidence. Feminism. Self-confidence. Self-esteem in women. Women -- Conduct of life. Women -- Psychology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12716718

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Other authors / contributors:	Gill, Rosalind (Rosalind Clair), author.
ISBN:	9781478014539 1478014539 9781478017608 1478017600 9781478021834
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"In Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at women to "love your body" and "believe in yourself" imply that psychological blocks hold women back rather than entrenched social injustices. Interrogating the prominence of confidence in contemporary discourse about body image, workplace, relationships, motherhood, and international development, Orgad and Gill draw on Foucault's notion of technologies of self to demonstrate how "confidence culture" demands of women near-constant introspection and vigilance in the service of self-improvement. They argue that while confidence messaging may feel good, it does not address structural and systemic oppression. Rather, confidence culture suggests that women-along with people of color, the disabled, and other marginalized groups-are responsible for their own conditions. Rejecting confidence culture's remaking of feminism along individualistic and neoliberal lines, Orgad and Gill explore alternative articulations of feminism that go beyond the confidence imperative"--
Other form:	Online version: Orgad, Shani, 1972- Confidence culture Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 9781478021834

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