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【女性主义研究】新女性：后女性主义、新自由主义和主体性（英文版）

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简介It gives me enormous pleasure to provide some words as a preface to this volume

It gives me enormous pleasure to provide some words as a preface to this volume, and I regret that questions of space make it impossible for me to offer a response to every single chapter in this collection. The contents advance our understanding of current developments and permutations in the conditions of (mostly young) womanhood, the production of gendered subjectivities, and the various requirements to perform a kind of sexuality which will be compliant with the changing needs of a global economy. The authors all recognize and engage with the changes which have come to characterize the distinctive modalities of power that comprise flows and luminosities and formations of attention which attend to young women in contemporary sociality. Most vivid here is the expectation of ‘equality’. Where there is no question of this being fulfilled in socio-economic terms, or even of it becoming a lively subject for discussion, nevertheless it is promulgated as a prevailing cultural norm, as though to say in capital letters ‘Girls and Women Are Now Equal’. This provides a new horizon of power against which all sociological analyses must now proceed. Some might see this as an intensification of power through tropes of imaginary freedom, others as the gender logic of neoliberal governmentality. Certainly this equality norm has become a notional feature of social, political and corporate institutions through the last twenty years. Yet this has proved intractable, refusing to yield itself for analysis until recently. Maybe the reason for this was a ‘double entanglement’, a seemingly progressive push-forward factor which has seen gay and lesbian partnerships recognized and legitimated, and girls and young women being provided with new avenues and opportunities for achievement in education and employment and with sexual freedoms in leisure. At the same time, indeed as part of this same package, modes of patriarchal retrenchment have been digging in, as these conditions of freedom are tied to conditions of social conservatism, consumerism and hostility to feminism in any of its old or newer forms.

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【女性主义研究】新女性：后女性主义、新自由主义和主体性（英文版）

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