SOCC38H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Postfeminism, These Girls, Gender Identity
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Definition: postfeminism is the simultaneous incorporation, revision and depoliticization of many of the central goals of second wave feminism. Postfeminism constructs feminism as irrelevant in girls" lives because the battle for fender equality has been won. Assumption of gender equality has made outcries of gender injustice appear to be unfounded and implausible. Postfeminism enables girls and women to internalize the narrative of the self- determined subject who does not require support. Promoting the image of independent girls who are compliant with the new global economy. Girls are constructed as having unlimited choice but only on condition that feminism fades away . Significance: postfeminism is a powerful tactic that effaces structural oppression in order to convince girls as well as boys that girls can have it all . Example: through successful girls we can see how girls are now academically superior to. The discourse of girl power (pomerantz et al. )
