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The Prophets and Profits of Neoliberal Feminism in America

2015· article· en· W2181260614 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Molly Stambaugh

Bibliographic record

VenueSound Ideas (University of Puget Sound) · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGender Politics and Representation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFeminismNeoliberalism (international relations)EconomicsPolitical sciencePolitical economyLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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I begin this project by analyzing the problematic cooption of liberal feminist ideology by corporations, and their prominent representatives, for advertising and branding purposes. While this practice has a long history in the United States, beginning most pronouncedly in the aftermath of the women’s suffrage movement, the threat it presents to grassroots feminism and organized political action on women’s issues has never been greater. I argue that the current neoliberal climate of American society, along with our growing reliance on social media as a platform for political dialogue, has led modern day feminism to an impasse, even while gender inequality is still widely acknowledged and exhaustively discussed. I specifically examine the political efficacy of neoliberal feminisms evoked by Dove’s Real Beauty advertising campaign, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In campaign, and the fractured #feminism campaigns of social media. I contrast the political and social ambitions of these neoliberal feminist campaigns with first and second wave feminist activity, along with the work of recent academics. While the three campaigns I examine are unique in authorship, I argue that they are not only philosophically aligned through their common emphasis on individual self-identification and self-improvement, but also demonstrative of a “post-feminist” social climate that undermines organized feminist political activity. In addition, these iterations of neoliberal feminism strongly prioritize the experiences and concerns of middle/upper class, predominantly white women, ignoring the values of inclusion and intersectionality that have become essential to both grassroots and academic feminist discourse in recent years.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.043
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.247 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2015
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