| Description |
275 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
Decolonize that! |
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Decolonize that!
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. How to have amazing sex (and become your best self in the process): harness your receptive femininity and pactice mindfullness! -- Chapter 2. Marketing self-care: from femtech and biohacking to painmoons and extreme travel -- Chaprter 3. You can nourish your family and climb the ladder of success! The white neoliberal feminism and hip domesticity of food-based health movements -- Chapter 4. More care, less self? How to (hopefully) move beyond complaint, critique, and coloniality. |
| Summary |
"Decolonize Self-Care mounts a sharply critical investigation into contemporary "self-care" practices--particularly those that embrace using mindfulness and other techniques such as tantra and yoga, as well as gluten-free and low-carbohydrate diets. The authors argue that "self-care" has become an industry, and one that is often marketed to and by wealthy, cisgender, white women in the global north. Spurgas and Meleo-Erwin contend that the rhetoric of "feminism" is regularly co-opted in selling self-care, with wealthy white women being the primary consumer target and also those who profit from self-care entrepreneurship. Through careful research and sharp analysis, the authors offer a vision of more radical, communal, collective, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist forms of care for chronic pain, burnout, depression, anxiety, and other conditions which are often the result of gendered, sexualized, racialized, ableist, and colonialist traumas under late capitalism. Utilizing critical feminist disability studies, madness studies, Black feminist scholarship, decolonial theory, and other intersectional and Marxist feminist critique, the authors re-theorize care outside of and beyond what current self-care rhetorics generally allow. A smart and often laugh-out-loud read, Decolonize Self-Care speaks to academic and lay audiences alike."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Self-care, Health.
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Decolonization.
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Self-care, Health. (OCoLC)fst01111506
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| Added Author |
Meleo-Erwin, Zoë, author.
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| ISBN |
1682193357 |
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9781682193358 (paperback) |
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