Published 2023
“…I explore the tensions between the new feminist proclamations of women’s liberation and the persistence of patriarchal demands, in what seems to be resolved under the strategy of total alignment between one’s own desire and the desire of the system, through narratives of body care,
self-love and personal development.
For this purpose, I work through three central concepts, namely “postfeminism” (Gill, 2007), “healthism” (Crawford, 1980) and “fitness dispositive” (Costa, 2010), which I relate to the figure of the “entrepreneur of the self” as theorized by Michel Foucault. …”
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