Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism
- ISBN-10
- 082650373X
- ISBN-13
- 9780826503732
- Series
- Letting Go
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-04-30
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Authors
- Catherine G. Valentine, Donna King
Description
At a time when women are being exhorted to "lean in" and work harder to get ahead, Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism encourages both women and men to "let go" instead. The book explores alternatives to the belief that individual achievement, accumulation, and attention-seeking are the road to happiness and satisfaction in life. Letting go demands a radical recognition that the values, relationships, and structures of our neoliberal (competitive, striving, accumulating, consuming, exploiting, oppressive) society are harmful both on a personal level and, especially important, on a social and environmental level. There is a huge difference between letting go and "chilling out." In a lean-in society, self-care is promoted as something women and men should do to learn how to "relax" and find a comfortable work-life balance. By contrast, a feminist letting-go and its attendant self-care have the potential to be a radical act of awakening to social and environmental injustice and a call to activism.
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