White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck
Author:Koa Beck [Beck, Koa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: feminism
ISBN: 9781982134433
Google: U5vsDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-01-05T05:00:00+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 âa millennial alternative to Lean Inâ36 and Lena Dunham elevated the brand even further, saying â#GIRLBOSS is a movement.â37
Importantly, though, the âbusiness book,â as it was awarded by Goodreads,38 wasnât considered a structural critique by any measure. Even the âaccessibleâ career advice, according to the New York Times, was at times âhead-scratching.â39 The Guardian said, âThis bestseller is both the life story of a fashion entrepreneur and a guide to female empowerment. The trouble is itâs as shallow as a teaspoon.â40 The reviewer ultimately described the âsensible adviceâ as âthinâ when considering how a reader was supposed to replicate these strategies.
But this interpretation of #GIRLBOSS was not lost in some online womenâs 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 itâs ultimately a bit shallow; itâs a memoir with some pretty basic workplace advice stirred in. This adviceâdonât let men hold you back, work hard for what you wantâisnât 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 donât, thatâs a different problem entirely. What #GIRLBOSS providesâwhat Lean In providedâis 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 thereâs another way around this corporate ladder, neither Sandberg nor Amoruso are telling young women about it.41
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