Lean In and Tell Me a (True) Story: Sheryl Sandberg’s Revision of Feminist History

Kennedy, Tanya Ann

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77081-9_5

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“…A second form of rigid femininity aligns with what has discussed by others in terms of "lean in" feminism (Kennedy, 2018), neoliberal feminism (Rottenberg, 2013), postfeminist sensibility (Gill, 2007;Gill, 2017), and right-wing feminism (Farris & Rottenberg, 2017). This form of "feminist" femininity demonstrates cruel optimism in the Berlantian sense, that is, it serves to prop up nationalist imaginaries (such as the "American dream") that maintain the existing capitalist class structure even as it purports to challenge the gendered "glass ceiling".…”

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Is there anything “toxic” about femininity? The rigid femininities that keep us locked in

McCann

2020

Psychology & Sexuality

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In recent years there has been rising popular discourse around "toxic masculinity", and the problems of a hegemonic gender structure that facilitates male violence and misogyny. In the public debate over whether toxic masculinity is fact or fiction, "toxic femininity" is often raised by men's rights activists and others as an anti-feminist retort, to suggest that women can be "toxic" too. This paper provides a sketch of how the term has been used so far, in tandem with an overview of the limitations of the more extensively discussed idea of "toxic masculinity". This suggests that although the term "toxic femininity" has limitations, it is useful to consider what might be "toxic" about some approaches to femininity. Drawing on existing theories of femininity, including emphasized, hegemonic, normative, and patriarchal femininity, this paper offers the notion of "rigid femininities" to explain the attachments that keep us locked in a "toxic" gender system. This paper utilises toxic femininity as a starting point for theorising femininity broadly, to conceptualise the "toxic" attachments that reinforce the hegemonic patriarchal gender structure.

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Section: Entrepreneurial Feminist Femininitysupporting

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Is there anything “toxic” about femininity? The rigid femininities that keep us locked in

McCann

2020

Psychology & Sexuality

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Hidden figures: reframing gender prototyping from a communication science perspective

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Davis²

2020

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Lean In and Tell Me a (True) Story: Sheryl Sandberg’s Revision of Feminist History

Cited by 2 publications

References 11 publications

Is there anything “toxic” about femininity? The rigid femininities that keep us locked in

Is there anything “toxic” about femininity? The rigid femininities that keep us locked in

Hidden figures: reframing gender prototyping from a communication science perspective

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