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Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12247140 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Benton (0000-0002-7732-0059, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 215-233 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women a Cultural Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-4042 • E-ISSN: 1470-1367 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09574042.2013.797660 |
| OpenAlex | W2052900305 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The modernizing wing of British Conservatives has espoused neoliberalism and, apparently, feminism. Proclaiming the importance of more women in public life appears to be the zeitgeist of the elite. The same elite also condemns ‘testosterone-driven’ men in the financial industry. As the essence of neoliberalism is the small state, women have to make progress into public life without state aid—but with plenty of lawyers. Women who can pay for childcare may benefit from these arrangements. They obviously do not represent women collectively. Most women are not professional and most working women are paid less per hour than are men. The only thing all women have in common is our bodies. In spite of the neoliberals’ modernizing speech, a patriarchy exists in which women's sexual power is appropriated by men. Even in post-patriarchal societies, there remains an unspoken belief that men have the right of access to the bodies of all women—as represented by the Sun newspaper's notorious Page 3. The literal underside of this is the gothic horror of women being imprisoned in cellars for the purposes of rape and torture, while their keepers continue upstairs life as normal. The slogans of individual choice and freedom do not give power to women to change the circumstances which trap, or humiliate, or impoverish them
Elite · Feminism · Media studies · Neoliberalism (international relations · Newspaper · Patriarchy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2020 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |