interconnectedness of postfeminism and neoliberalism in the domain of 'Full power despite stress': A discourse analytical examination of the work in an international women's magazine  

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Kauppinen, Kati

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Discourse and Communication ( Full Text) vol. 7 no. 2 (May 2013), page 133.
Topik: Discourse analysis; discourses; empowerment; gender; Germany; governmentality; neoliberalism; postfeminism; power; women’s magazines
Fulltext: DISCOURSE & COMMUNICATION-2013-Kauppinen-133-51.pdf (418.7KB)

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Stories and images of successful career women and support for women’s advancement in working life have become hallmarks of contemporary postfeminist media culture, and especially of women’s magazines such as Cosmopolitan. While in previous research these features have been seen as signs for a new, popular feminism, more recently they have also been connected to the growing hegemony of neoliberal governance, a mode of power that ultimately aims at the economization of the social and is fundamentally exercised in and through discourse. The aim of this article is to investigate further the interconnectedness of these two phenomena, postfeminism and neoliberalism, in the domain of work, using the example of the German edition of Cosmopolitan. For a detailed and multilayered investigation the study draws on linguistically oriented discourse analysis, focusing on the operation of a ‘discourse of postfeminist selfmanagement’. The examination shows how this discourse, while on the one hand evoking an ethos of feminist engagement, on the other seeks to guide readers to mould themselves into a version of the entrepreneurial self required by the neoliberalized world of work.

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