Letting Go

Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-09-30
Mått:178 x 254 x 16 mm
Vikt:661 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN:9780826520654

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Donna King, Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA is author of Doing Their Share to Save the Planet: Children and Environmental Crisis and coeditor of Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective (also published by Vanderbilt).Catherine (Kay) G. Valentine, Professor Emerita of Sociology and founding director of women's studies at Nazareth College, is coeditor of The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction | Letting Go Feminism: Reconnecting Self-Care and Social JusticeCatherine (Kay) G. ValentinePart One: Theoretical Perspectives1. Toward a Feminist Theory of Letting GoDonna King2. On the Interdependence of Personal and Social TransformationDavid R. Loy3. Leaning In and Letting Go: Feminist Tools for Valuing NonworkJennifer Randles4. Letting Go of Normal when “Normal” Is Pathological, or Why Feminism Is a Gift to MenRobert JensenPart Two: Personal Essays5. When “Straight-Acting” Lost Its Luster: Letting Go of Masculine PrivilegeAnthony C. Ocampo6. The Gold PenDeborah J. Cohan7. Whether Willing or Unwilling: The Personal, the Professional, and Two Years of Too MuchMeghan M. Sweeney8. Letting Go: How Does a Feminist Retire?Diane E. Levy9. When Enough Is Enough: African American Women Reclaiming ThemselvesShirley A. JacksonPart Three: Ethnographies10. What to Let Go: Insights from Online Cervical Cancer NarrativesTracy B. Citeroni11. Stay-at-Home Fathers: Are Domestic Men Bucking Hegemonic Masculinity?Steven Farough12. From Retail Banking to Credit Counseling: Opting Out and Tuning InKevin J. Delaney13. Keeping Up Appearances: Working Class Feminists Speak Out about the Success Model in AcademiaRoxanne Gerbrandt and Liza Kurtz14. Letting Go and Having Fun: Redefining Aging in AmericaDeana A. Rohlinger and Haley GentilePart Four: Ecological Perspectives15. Letting Go and Getting Real: Applying Buddhist Principles to Address Environmental CrisisJanine Schipper16. Consuming Violence: Oil and Food in Everyday Life 201Patricia Widener17. Growing Food, Growing Justice: Letting Go by Holding On to the Feminine PrincipleLeontina Hormel and Ryanne PilgeramPart Five: Visionary Feminism18. Dig Deep: Beyond Lean Inbell hooksContributorsIndex