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New Heroines of Labour: Domesticating Post-feminism and Neoliberal Capitalism in Russia
Tekijät: Salmenniemi S, Adamson M
Kustantaja: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Julkaisuvuosi: 2015
Journal: Sociology
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Lehden akronyymi: SOCIOLOGY
Vuosikerta: 49
Numero: 1
Aloitussivu: 88
Lopetussivu: 105
Sivujen määrä: 18
ISSN: 0038-0385
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038513516830
In recent years, post-feminism has become an important element of popular media culture and the object of feminist cultural critique. This article explores how post-feminism is domesticated in Russia through popular self-help literature aimed at a female audience. Drawing on a close reading of self-help texts by three best-selling Russian authors, the article examines how post-feminism is made intelligible to the Russian audience and how it articulates with other symbolic frameworks. It identifies labour as a key trope through which post-feminism is domesticated and argues that the texts invite women to invest time and energy in the labour of personality, the labour of femininity and the labour of sexuality in order to become valuable subjects'. The article demonstrates that the domestication of post-feminism also involves the domestication of neoliberal capitalism in Russia, and highlights how popular psychology, neoliberal capitalism and post-feminism are symbiotically related.