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Confidence Culture

Paperback • 2022 • English

Confidence Culture

By Shani Orgad, Rosalind Gill

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About the book

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 rather than entrenched social injustices hold women back. 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 o...Show more

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ISBN

9781478017608

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published year

2022

Language

English

Original title

Confidence Culture

Format

Paperback

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