White Feminism by Koa Beck

White Feminism by Koa Beck

Author:Koa Beck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2021-01-05T00:00:00+00:00


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When #GIRLBOSS was published in 2014, it became a New York Times bestseller and, later, a Netflix series by the same name. New York magazine described the book as “a millennial alternative to Lean In”36 and Lena Dunham elevated the brand even further, saying “#GIRLBOSS is a movement.”37

Importantly, though, the “business book,” as it was awarded by Goodreads,38 wasn’t considered a structural critique by any measure. Even the “accessible” career advice, according to the New York Times, was at times “head-scratching.”39 The Guardian said, “This bestseller is both the life story of a fashion entrepreneur and a guide to female empowerment. The trouble is it’s as shallow as a teaspoon.”40 The reviewer ultimately described the “sensible advice” as “thin” when considering how a reader was supposed to replicate these strategies.

But this interpretation of #GIRLBOSS was not lost in some online women’s spaces, in which the book was evaluated to have other merits well outside of structural change. Tori Telfer observed in Bustle in 2014:

A book like #GIRLBOSS is valuable in that it inspires young women, especially young women feeling under confident or unsure of how to carry themselves in the workplace. But it’s ultimately a bit shallow; it’s a memoir with some pretty basic workplace advice stirred in. This advice—don’t let men hold you back, work hard for what you want—isn’t really what young workers need to hear. Millennials ostensibly already know that we should work hard and push for equality and wear professional clothing to an interview, and if we don’t, that’s a different problem entirely. What #GIRLBOSS provides—what Lean In provided—is psychological support, not answers. Change in the workplace ultimately happens with change in the workplace: You gotta go to the interview before you can get the job. You gotta work at the job before you get the promotion. If there’s another way around this corporate ladder, neither Sandberg nor Amoruso are telling young women about it.41



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