‘Confidence You Can Carry!’: Girls in Crisis and the Market for Girls' Empowerment Organizations
Abstract
Girl empowerment organizations (GEOs) emerged in the USA around the same time that empowering girls became a central theme in international development discourse. I argue that these organizations are part of a ‘market of empowerment’ that aims to empower girls within a context of commodified girl power and neoliberal entrepreneurialism.
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Today we must attend to the syncretic soldering of the fascist 'crisis-woman' to the neoliberal 'at-risk' woman and even to particular varietals of liberal feminism.
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- Authors
- Banet-Weiser, S.
- Affiliations
- , University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Venue
- Continuum
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2015-03-04
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 182-193
- ISSN
- 1030-4312 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-3666
- OpenAlex
- W2013277072
- Cited by
- 138
- References
- 35
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- FWCI
- 27.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Continuum (publishedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (acceptedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Social Sciences › Education › Gender, Education, and Development Issues
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality
- Keywords
- international development discourse, girls' empowerment, nonprofit organizations
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