{"product_id":"letting-go-feminist-and-social-justice-insight-and-activism-hardcover","title":"Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonna King\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a time when women are being exhorted to \"lean in\" and work harder to get ahead, \u003ci\u003eLetting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism\u003c\/i\u003e encourages both women and men to \"let go\" instead. The book explores alternatives to the belief that individual achievement, accumulation, and attention-seeking are the road to happiness and satisfaction in life. Letting go demands a radical recognition that the values, relationships, and structures of our neoliberal (competitive, striving, accumulating, consuming, exploiting, oppressive) society are harmful both on a personal level and, especially important, on a social and environmental level. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e There is a huge difference between letting go and \"chilling out.\" In a lean-in society, self-care is promoted as something women and men should do to learn how to \"relax\" and find a comfortable work-life balance. By contrast, a feminist letting-go and its attendant self-care have the potential to be a radical act of awakening to social and environmental injustice and a call to activism.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine (Kay) G. Valentine\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor Emerita of Sociology and founding director of women's studies at Nazareth College, is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonna King\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, is author of \u003ci\u003eDoing Their Share to Save the Planet: Children and Environmental Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eMen Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e (also published by Vanderbilt).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 10.1 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45892955898053,"sku":"9780826520654","price":194.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/dJp5ii9afW9780826520654.webp?v=1771919020","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/letting-go-feminist-and-social-justice-insight-and-activism-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}