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Post-postfeminism? New feminist visibilities in postfeminist times
This article contributes to debates about the value and utility of the notion of postfeminism for a seemingly ânewâ moment marked by a resurgence of interest in feminism in the media and among young women. The paper reviews current understandings of postfeminism and criticisms of the termâs failure to speak to or connect with contemporary feminism. It offers a defence of the continued importance of a critical notion of postfeminism, used as an analytical category to capture a distinctive contradictory-but-patterned sensibility intimately connected to neoliberalism. The paper raises questions about the meaning of the apparent new visibility of feminism and highlights the multiplicity of different feminisms currently circulating in mainstream media culture â which exist in tension with each other. I argue for the importance of being able to âthink togetherâ the rise of popular feminism alongside and in tandem with intensified misogyny. I further show how a postfeminist sensibility informs even those media productions that ostensibly celebrate the new feminism. Ultimately, the paper argues that claims that we have moved âbeyondâ postfeminism are (sadly) premature, and the notion still has much to offer feminist cultural critics
âConfidence you can carry!â: girls in crisis and the market for girls' empowerment organizations
Girl empowerment organizations (GEOs) emerged in the USA around the same time that empowering girls became a central theme in international development discourse. I argue that these organizations are part of a âmarket of empowermentâ that aims to empower girls within a context of commodified girl power and neoliberal entrepreneurialism