Catherine Rottenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 640377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Rottenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Rottenberg |
| SIGNATURE | ROTTENBERG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2196-3589 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 241 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Towards a typology of gendered rage
In dialogue with the six contributions to this special issue, here we offer a preliminary typography of the diverse forms of gendered rage which are helping to define our current moment. We suggest that contemporary manifestations of women's rage, and gendered rage more generally, can be broadly divided into three prevailing forms: voluble and visible; sublimated; and threshold. Rage as visible and voluble is most easily identifiable and arguably…
The menopausal subject at work: Gendered embodiment and neoliberal management in the UK
In this paper, we examine five key UK policy documents that aim, inter alia, to address the concerns of ageing women in the workplace at a time when an estimated 900,000 women in the UK have left their jobs due to symptoms associated with menopause. Our analysis reveals that menopause has become a key site through which the contemporary struggle over how we (should) perceive gendered embodiment is being played out. This is evident in how these do…
Believability by Kathryn Claire Higgins and Sarah Banet-Weiser
How to tame your hormones: Menopause rage in media discourse
While feminist scholarship has challenged earlier misogynist discourses around menopause, menopause continues to be associated with women’s rage. Focusing on UK news and advice websites (2018–2024), we ask if and how this association is figured in contemporary cultural representations and what cultural and political work it performs. We situate our examination within three converging contexts: 1) the unleashing of public displays of women’s rage …
Mediating menopause: Feminism, neoliberalism, and biomedicalisation
Menopause is currently a 'hot' topic in the UK. This article examines the Channel 4 television documentary Davina McCall: Sex, Myths and the Menopause as a key cultural text in the current UK 'menopause moment', demonstrating how the programme both reflects and contributes to the broader trend of menopause's growing visibility and the emerging menopause market. We begin by situating Davina within broader social, cultural and economic processes wh…
Changing the Subject by Srila Roy
The menopause moment: The rising visibility of ‘the change’ in UK news coverage
Drawing on feminist scholarship that interrogates cultural representations of ageing women, this article examines UK news coverage of menopause from 2001 to 2021. We show that not only has there been a dramatic rise in menopause’s visibility since 2015, and especially since 2021, but that the coverage is concentrated in the conservative right-wing press. We also document six peaks in coverage, which are driven by celebrity stories, news about men…
Celebrating Fifty Years of Feminist Studies: Notes of Appreciation from Authors
"In celebration of fifty years since Feminist Studies began publishing, in 1972, we asked a selection of authors to convey what having their work published in Feminist Studies has meant for them, both professionally as well as personally. Following are their responses."
Gender, Media and Voice by Jilly Boyce Kay
The Care Crisis by Emma Dowling
Disavowing dependency: On Angela McRobbie’s Feminism and the Politics of Resilience
El auge del feminismo neoliberal
From carewashing to radical care: The discursive explosions of care during Covid-19
Care, in all its permutations, is the buzzword of the moment, its meanings draining away in its constant evocation. Here, we briefly expand on older and newer meanings of care in the wake of Covid-19. These include the increasingly blurred boundaries between what has been traditionally understood as “care work” versus “essential work”; desperate attempts by corporations to promote themselves as ‘caring’; and the adoption of reactionary rather tha…
Feminist solidarities: Theoretical and practical complexities
This article considers the resurgence of interest in feminist solidarity in theory and practice in the contemporary moment in the United States and UK. What does feminist solidarity mean, what forms is it taking, and how might it proliferate? We begin by mapping the changing inflections of solidarity in recent feminist cultural theory, highlighting the range of theoretical components, investments and emphases. Next, we consider the various forms …
Feminist Solidarity and Social Justice: A Response to Nira Yuval-Davis’ 1984 ‘Zionism, Antisemitism and the Struggle Against Racism: Some Reflections on a Current Painful Debate Among Feminists’
Postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism? Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg in conversation
In this unconventional article, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg conduct a three-way 'conversation' in which they all take turns outlining how they understand the relationship among postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism. It begins with a short introduction, and then Ros, Sarah and Catherine each define the term they have become associated with. This is followed by another round in which they discuss the …
MeToo, popular feminism and the news: A content analysis of UK newspaper coverage
This article examines the first 6 months of #MeToo’s coverage in the UK press, revealing how newspapers played an important role in heightening the campaign’s visibility. Using content analysis, our study demonstrates that the press contributed to expanding and reinforcing #MeToo’s visibility in important ways. In terms of reach, the UK press has expanded the movement’s visibility beyond social media, addressing potentially new and different read…
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
Through an in-depth analysis of bestselling “how-to-succeed” books along with popular television shows and well-trafficked “mommy” blogs, The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism demonstrates how the notion of a happy work-family balance has not only been incorporated into the popular imagination as a progressive feminist ideal but also lies at the heart of a new variant of feminism. Embraced by high-powered women, from Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg …
Women Who Work: The limits of the neoliberal feminist paradigm
This article examines Ivanka Trump's Women Who Work , arguing that it represents the newest permutation of the neoliberal feminist subject. After providing an overview of the recent emergence of neoliberal feminism, I explain why the book should be considered part of the wider cultural landscape in which this variant of feminism has increasingly become commonsensical. I then turn to demonstrate how Women Who Work construes the ideal female subjec…
Neoliberal meritocracy
Neoliberal Feminism and the Future of Human Capital
This article examines the contemporary embrace of feminism by the mainstream media and among high-powered women. I begin by showing that not only is a neoliberal variant of feminism on the rise but that this feminism is producing a new form of neoliberal governmentality for middle-class women, one based on careful planning and smart self-investments in the present to ensure enhanced returns in the future. Providing two representative examples—the…
The New Woman Ideal and Urban Space in Tess Slesinger’s The Unpossessed
Our space has strange effects. For one thing, it unleashes desire.—Henri Levebvre (97)The loosely knit plot of Tess Slesinger’s 1934 novel The Unpossessed revolves around an attempt on the part of
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
In this paper, I argue that we are currently witnessing the emergence of neoliberal feminism in the USA, which is most clearly articulated in two highly publicized and widely read ‘feminist manifestos’: Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In (a New York Times best-seller) and Anne-Marie Slaughter's ‘Why Women Still Can't Have It All’ (the most widely read piece in the history of the Atlantic). Concentrating on the shifting discursive registers in Lean In, I p…
Happiness and the Liberal Imagination: How Superwoman Became Balanced
144 Feminist Studies 40, no. 1. © 2014 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Catherine Rottenberg Happiness and the Liberal Imagination: How Superwoman Became Balanced A new trend is on the rise: suddenly high-powered women are publically espousing feminism and urging renewed public discussion about how to ensure that women can cultivate a better work-family balance. In an era often described as postfeminist, it seems that a feminist debate is currently bein…
Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry and the Question of the Emancipatory City
Focusing on the representation of Harlem, I examine how Wallace Thurman's 1929 The Blacker the Berry explicitly challenges the notion of "the emancipatory city" while emphasizing the spatial aspect of subject formation. Thurman underscores both the city's liberating potential and its simultaneous tendency to reinforce dominant normative schemes
Postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism? Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg in conversation
In this unconventional article, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg conduct a three-way 'conversation' in which they all take turns outlining how they understand the relationship among postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism. It begins with a short introduction, and then Ros, Sarah and Catherine each define the term they have become associated with. This is followed by another round in which they discuss the …
MeToo, popular feminism and the news: A content analysis of UK newspaper coverage
This article examines the first 6 months of #MeToo’s coverage in the UK press, revealing how newspapers played an important role in heightening the campaign’s visibility. Using content analysis, our study demonstrates that the press contributed to expanding and reinforcing #MeToo’s visibility in important ways. In terms of reach, the UK press has expanded the movement’s visibility beyond social media, addressing potentially new and different read…
From carewashing to radical care: The discursive explosions of care during Covid-19
Care, in all its permutations, is the buzzword of the moment, its meanings draining away in its constant evocation. Here, we briefly expand on older and newer meanings of care in the wake of Covid-19. These include the increasingly blurred boundaries between what has been traditionally understood as “care work” versus “essential work”; desperate attempts by corporations to promote themselves as ‘caring’; and the adoption of reactionary rather tha…
Women Who Work: The limits of the neoliberal feminist paradigm
This article examines Ivanka Trump's Women Who Work , arguing that it represents the newest permutation of the neoliberal feminist subject. After providing an overview of the recent emergence of neoliberal feminism, I explain why the book should be considered part of the wider cultural landscape in which this variant of feminism has increasingly become commonsensical. I then turn to demonstrate how Women Who Work construes the ideal female subjec…
Feminist solidarities: Theoretical and practical complexities
This article considers the resurgence of interest in feminist solidarity in theory and practice in the contemporary moment in the United States and UK. What does feminist solidarity mean, what forms is it taking, and how might it proliferate? We begin by mapping the changing inflections of solidarity in recent feminist cultural theory, highlighting the range of theoretical components, investments and emphases. Next, we consider the various forms …
Happiness and the Liberal Imagination: How Superwoman Became Balanced
144 Feminist Studies 40, no. 1. © 2014 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Catherine Rottenberg Happiness and the Liberal Imagination: How Superwoman Became Balanced A new trend is on the rise: suddenly high-powered women are publically espousing feminism and urging renewed public discussion about how to ensure that women can cultivate a better work-family balance. In an era often described as postfeminist, it seems that a feminist debate is currently bein…
The menopause moment: The rising visibility of ‘the change’ in UK news coverage
Drawing on feminist scholarship that interrogates cultural representations of ageing women, this article examines UK news coverage of menopause from 2001 to 2021. We show that not only has there been a dramatic rise in menopause’s visibility since 2015, and especially since 2021, but that the coverage is concentrated in the conservative right-wing press. We also document six peaks in coverage, which are driven by celebrity stories, news about men…
Mediating menopause: Feminism, neoliberalism, and biomedicalisation
Menopause is currently a 'hot' topic in the UK. This article examines the Channel 4 television documentary Davina McCall: Sex, Myths and the Menopause as a key cultural text in the current UK 'menopause moment', demonstrating how the programme both reflects and contributes to the broader trend of menopause's growing visibility and the emerging menopause market. We begin by situating Davina within broader social, cultural and economic processes wh…
Disavowing dependency: On Angela McRobbie’s Feminism and the Politics of Resilience
The New Woman Ideal and Urban Space in Tess Slesinger’s The Unpossessed
Our space has strange effects. For one thing, it unleashes desire.—Henri Levebvre (97)The loosely knit plot of Tess Slesinger’s 1934 novel The Unpossessed revolves around an attempt on the part of
Neoliberal meritocracy
Race and Ethnicity in "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" and "The Rise of David Levinsky": The Performative Difference
Race and Ethnicity in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and The Rise of David Levinsky: The Performative Difference Get access Cathering Rottenberg Cathering Rottenberg 1Hebrew University of Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 29, Issue 3-4, Fall/Winter 2004, Pages 307–321, https://doi.org/10.2307/4141857 Published: 01 September 2004
Let It Be Morning by Sayed Kashua
Book Review| March 01 2008 Let It Be Morning by Sayed Kashua Let It Be Morning, Kashua, Sayed. Trans. Shlesinger, Miriam. New York: Grove /Atlantic, 2006. Pp. 288. ISBN 978-0-8021-7021-7. Catherine Rottenberg Catherine Rottenberg Ben-Gurion University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 138–141. https://doi.org/10.2979/MEW.2008.4.1.138 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twit…
Writing from the Margins of the Margins: Michael Gold's Jews Without Money and Claude McKay's Home to Harlem
(1930) and Claude McKay's Home to Harlem (1928) both depict, in colorful and often lurid detail, the underbelly of New York City's two most famous ethnic neighborhoods.1 While Gold's portrayal of the gangs, prostitutes, and criminals of the Lower East Side and McKay's depiction of the saloons, sweetmen, and violence of Harlem have fascinated readers ever since they first appeared, they have also provoked controversy and scathing critique. Over th…
Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry and the Question of the Emancipatory City
Focusing on the representation of Harlem, I examine how Wallace Thurman's 1929 The Blacker the Berry explicitly challenges the notion of "the emancipatory city" while emphasizing the spatial aspect of subject formation. Thurman underscores both the city's liberating potential and its simultaneous tendency to reinforce dominant normative schemes
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
In this paper, I argue that we are currently witnessing the emergence of neoliberal feminism in the USA, which is most clearly articulated in two highly publicized and widely read ‘feminist manifestos’: Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In (a New York Times best-seller) and Anne-Marie Slaughter's ‘Why Women Still Can't Have It All’ (the most widely read piece in the history of the Atlantic). Concentrating on the shifting discursive registers in Lean In, I p…
Happiness and the Liberal Imagination: How Superwoman Became Balanced
144 Feminist Studies 40, no. 1. © 2014 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Catherine Rottenberg Happiness and the Liberal Imagination: How Superwoman Became Balanced A new trend is on the rise: suddenly high-powered women are publically espousing feminism and urging renewed public discussion about how to ensure that women can cultivate a better work-family balance. In an era often described as postfeminist, it seems that a feminist debate is currently bein…
The New Woman Ideal and Urban Space in Tess Slesinger’s The Unpossessed
Our space has strange effects. For one thing, it unleashes desire.—Henri Levebvre (97)The loosely knit plot of Tess Slesinger’s 1934 novel The Unpossessed revolves around an attempt on the part of
Neoliberal Feminism and the Future of Human Capital
This article examines the contemporary embrace of feminism by the mainstream media and among high-powered women. I begin by showing that not only is a neoliberal variant of feminism on the rise but that this feminism is producing a new form of neoliberal governmentality for middle-class women, one based on careful planning and smart self-investments in the present to ensure enhanced returns in the future. Providing two representative examples—the…
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
Through an in-depth analysis of bestselling “how-to-succeed” books along with popular television shows and well-trafficked “mommy” blogs, The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism demonstrates how the notion of a happy work-family balance has not only been incorporated into the popular imagination as a progressive feminist ideal but also lies at the heart of a new variant of feminism. Embraced by high-powered women, from Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg …
Women Who Work: The limits of the neoliberal feminist paradigm
This article examines Ivanka Trump's Women Who Work , arguing that it represents the newest permutation of the neoliberal feminist subject. After providing an overview of the recent emergence of neoliberal feminism, I explain why the book should be considered part of the wider cultural landscape in which this variant of feminism has increasingly become commonsensical. I then turn to demonstrate how Women Who Work construes the ideal female subjec…
Neoliberal meritocracy
MeToo, popular feminism and the news: A content analysis of UK newspaper coverage
This article examines the first 6 months of #MeToo’s coverage in the UK press, revealing how newspapers played an important role in heightening the campaign’s visibility. Using content analysis, our study demonstrates that the press contributed to expanding and reinforcing #MeToo’s visibility in important ways. In terms of reach, the UK press has expanded the movement’s visibility beyond social media, addressing potentially new and different read…
El auge del feminismo neoliberal
From carewashing to radical care: The discursive explosions of care during Covid-19
Care, in all its permutations, is the buzzword of the moment, its meanings draining away in its constant evocation. Here, we briefly expand on older and newer meanings of care in the wake of Covid-19. These include the increasingly blurred boundaries between what has been traditionally understood as “care work” versus “essential work”; desperate attempts by corporations to promote themselves as ‘caring’; and the adoption of reactionary rather tha…
Feminist solidarities: Theoretical and practical complexities
This article considers the resurgence of interest in feminist solidarity in theory and practice in the contemporary moment in the United States and UK. What does feminist solidarity mean, what forms is it taking, and how might it proliferate? We begin by mapping the changing inflections of solidarity in recent feminist cultural theory, highlighting the range of theoretical components, investments and emphases. Next, we consider the various forms …
Feminist Solidarity and Social Justice: A Response to Nira Yuval-Davis’ 1984 ‘Zionism, Antisemitism and the Struggle Against Racism: Some Reflections on a Current Painful Debate Among Feminists’
Postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism? Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg in conversation
In this unconventional article, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg conduct a three-way 'conversation' in which they all take turns outlining how they understand the relationship among postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism. It begins with a short introduction, and then Ros, Sarah and Catherine each define the term they have become associated with. This is followed by another round in which they discuss the …
Gender, Media and Voice by Jilly Boyce Kay
The Care Crisis by Emma Dowling
Disavowing dependency: On Angela McRobbie’s Feminism and the Politics of Resilience
Celebrating Fifty Years of Feminist Studies: Notes of Appreciation from Authors
"In celebration of fifty years since Feminist Studies began publishing, in 1972, we asked a selection of authors to convey what having their work published in Feminist Studies has meant for them, both professionally as well as personally. Following are their responses."
Changing the Subject by Srila Roy
The menopause moment: The rising visibility of ‘the change’ in UK news coverage
Drawing on feminist scholarship that interrogates cultural representations of ageing women, this article examines UK news coverage of menopause from 2001 to 2021. We show that not only has there been a dramatic rise in menopause’s visibility since 2015, and especially since 2021, but that the coverage is concentrated in the conservative right-wing press. We also document six peaks in coverage, which are driven by celebrity stories, news about men…
Believability by Kathryn Claire Higgins and Sarah Banet-Weiser
How to tame your hormones: Menopause rage in media discourse
While feminist scholarship has challenged earlier misogynist discourses around menopause, menopause continues to be associated with women’s rage. Focusing on UK news and advice websites (2018–2024), we ask if and how this association is figured in contemporary cultural representations and what cultural and political work it performs. We situate our examination within three converging contexts: 1) the unleashing of public displays of women’s rage …
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