Not just one woman at a time: Re-radicalizing a feminist project at work in a postfeminist era
Yvonne Benschop,
Patricia Lewis
Abstract:Feminism is back, but is it? What does the contemporary popularity of feminism mean for the feminist subject and the feminist project in western organizations? This is the question that lies at the heart of this article. We observe how postfeminism – as a key source for feminism’s contemporary attractiveness – individualizes the feminist subject as empowered, choosing and self-transforming. However, feelings of affective incongruity between what is promised and what is delivered in postfeminist times provide a… Show more
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