Description:
Ferri analyzes women's self-help literature through feminist discourse analysis, examining how neoliberal feminism promotes gender equality via self-improvement. Key for linguistics, education, gender studies researchers.
Review Quotes:
"In the wake of an ubiquitous, normalised, commercially successful, and seductive appeal of neoliberal feminist values, we are confronted by a culture of post-social critique. True to feminist critical discourse studies, Ferri offers a robust engagement of feminisms to deliver a compelling and lucid critique of a privileged I-centered feminism at the heart of self-help discourses, and to return a decisively critical feminist gaze upon resistance and hopeful collective futures."
Michelle M Lazar, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
"Ferri convincingly explores the complex relationships between female empowerment and neoliberalism, offering a rigorous and thorough examination of self-help literature targeting women. The book navigates the mosaic of intersectional identities, capitalism, colonialism, as well as the paradoxes that continue to disadvantage women within imbalanced gendered hierarchies."
Federica Formato, Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, University of Brighton