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“YOU’VE BEEN VALUED”
THE THIN LINE BETWEEN APPRAISAL AND EMPOWERMENT There was a time when being “valued” sounded like something you wanted from your boss, your partner, or perhaps a particularly attentive maître d’. Now? It sounds suspiciously like a performance review with better lighting. Somewhere between the rise of the “high-value woman,” the “provider man,” the algorithmic…
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Soft Focus, Hard Labour: Prescribed Femininity and the Performance of Dependence
There is a new fantasy woman drifting through culture right now and it looks an awful lot like a woman who wears cream cashmere in the middle of the afternoon, knows how to arrange peonies in expensive glass vases, speaks softly enough to be considered emotionally intelligent, and has somehow transformed financial dependence into a…
