Summary
Sheryl Sandberg’s business advice book, Lean In, was heralded as a defining moment in attitudes to women in business. But for all its commercial success, it proposed a model of feminism that was individualistic and unthreatening to capital.In her powerful debut work Lean Out, acclaimed journalist Dawn Foster unpicks how the purportedly feminist message of Sandberg’s book neatly exempts patriarchy, capitalism and business from any responsibility for changing the position of women in contempora…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781910924020 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1910924024 |
| Author: | Dawn Foster |
| Publisher: | Watkins Media Limited |
| Imprint: | Repeater Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 88 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 368g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 8mm |
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“Rarely does ‘essential reading’ really mean that you urgently need to read a book. But
“Rarely does ‘essential reading’ really mean that you urgently need to read a book. But Lean Out is different: the argument that a society that promotes ‘aspiration’ must rely on outliers is just one of its many gems. There is a danger that corporate feminism will enter academia and will not be recognised for the aberration that it is.Lean Out is the antidote. Just 87 pages long, it is well worth the many hours it takes to read and absorb.”
- Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder professor of geography, University of Oxford
“A very important, much-needed and well-researched book that isn’t afraid to ask the right questions and demand answers. It is a straight-talking, timely call to arms” - Independent on Sunday
“Vigorous…trenchant…a robust critique…it’s conclusion is both inevitable and startling” - Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education
“Excellent…forward-looking” - Sarah Leonard, Bookforum
“…much more than just a riposte to the popular business manifesto for women. Fascinating, thought-provoking and at times outrage-inducing, Lean Out elucidates the many ways in which women are being subjugated by corporations and the government, and encourages us to take direct action to address these inequalities.” - Ariane Sherine, Huffington Post
About The Author
Dawn Foster
Dawn Fosteris a writer and journalist. She is a columnist forThe Guardian, and writes for theLondon Review of Books,New York Times,DissentandProspect, among other publications. She won the IBP Young Journalist of the Year award in 2014. Her bookLean Out(Repeater, 2015) was shortlisted for the 2017 Bread and Roses Award and her journalism was longlisted for the 2017 Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils.
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