The reading room
Find the ideas behind the argument, check the edition, and read works through their authors, publishers and libraries.
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This bibliography preserves citation trails from the former archive. Older document links now lead to their corresponding entry here. Follow the publisher, author or library record to identify an edition and its access conditions.
Historical citations are reproduced as reference metadata. Some old entries were abbreviated; incomplete records are marked rather than completed by guesswork. A link to Crossref is a discovery search, not confirmation that the first result is the cited work.
For an introduction, start with Rottenberg’s book, Gill’s media-culture article, the ILO care report and Rose’s author record below. The reading guides explain how their questions differ.
The historical bibliography
Lynne Segal. Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy. Verso.
Another book featured on the former archive’s reading shelf. Consult the publisher for edition and access details. Its focus on collective joy offers a useful counterpoint to questions about individual self-improvement.
Meg-John Barker, Rosalind Gill and Laura Harvey. Mediated Intimacy: Sex Advice in Media Culture. Polity, 2018.
A verified publisher record replaces an old cover-image dead end. This entry is a bibliographic route to the book; it does not reproduce the text or offer relationship or health advice.
Sarah Banet-Weiser. Authentic™: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture. NYU Press, 2012.
The former archive linked to this book through a cover-image page. The publisher record supplies a direct reading trail. Pair it with the guide to consumer culture when asking how authenticity is presented and sold.
Jo Littler. Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility. Routledge.
A book from the former archive’s reading shelf. Follow the publisher’s record to identify its edition. Read its account of merit alongside the workplace questions in our corporate-feminism guide.
Harvey, D. (2007). A brief history of neoliberalism. Oxford University Press, USA.
Elias, A. S., & Gill, R. (2016). Beauty surveillance: the digital self-monitoring cultures of neoliberalism
Gonick, M. (2006). Between ”girl power” and ”reviving Ophelia”: Constituting the neoliberal girl
Bruni, A., Gherardi, S., & Poggio, B. (2004). Doing gender, doing entrepreneurship: An ethnographic
Giraldo, I. (2016). Coloniality at work: Decolonial critique and the postfeminist regime. Feminist Theory
Hall, S., & O’shea, A. (2013). Common-sense neoliberalism. Soundings, 55(55)
Dejmanee, T. (2016). Consumption in the city: The turn to interiority in contemporary postfeminist
Garland, C., & Harper, S. (2015). Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism?: On the Uses
Scharff, C. (2011). Disarticulating feminism: Individualization, neoliberalism and the othering of
Williams, R. (2014). Eat, pray, love: Producing the female neoliberal spiritual subject. The
Peters, M. (2009). Education, enterprise culture and the entrepreneurial self: A
Gray, A. (2003). Enterprising femininity: New modes of work and subjectivity. European Journal of Cultural Studies
Fairclough, K. (2008). Fame is a losing game: Celebrity gossip blogging, bitch culture and postfeminism
Modleski, T. (2014). Feminism without women: Culture and criticism in a” postfeminist” age. Rout
McRobbie, A. (2013). Feminism, the family and the new mediated maternalism. New Formatio
Farris, S. R. (2012). Femonationalism and the” Regular” Army of Labor Called Migrant Women. History of the Present
Hardin, C. (2014). Finding the ‘neo’ in neoliberalism. Cultural Studies, 28(2), 199-221.
Dosekun, S. (2015). For western girls only? Post-feminism as transnational culture. Feminist
Bröckling, U. (2005). Gendering the enterprising self: Subjectification programs and gender
Rottenberg, C. (2014). Happiness and the liberal imagination: how superwoman
Moseley, R., & Read, J. (2002). ” Having it Ally”: Popular Television (Post-) Feminism.
Farris, S. R. (2017). In the Name of Women s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism. Duke University Press.
Farris, S., & Rottenberg, C. (2017). IntroductIon: rIghtIng FemInIsm. new form
Layton, L. (2010). Irrational exuberance: Neoliberal subjectivity and the perversion of truth.
Riley, S., Evans, A., & Mackiewicz, A. (2016). It’s just between girls: Negotiating the postfe
Clarke, J. (2008). Living with/in and without neo-liberalism. Focaal, 2008(51), 135-147.
Amable, B. (2010). Morals and politics in the ideology of neo-liberalism. Socio
Genz, S. (2015). My Job is Me: Postfeminist celebrity culture and the gendering of authenticity. Feminist media
Larner, W. (2000). Neo-liberalismi policy, ideology, governmentality. Studies in political economy
Brown, W. (2003). Neo-liberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy. Theory & Event
Rottenberg, C. (2017). Neoliberal Feminism and the Future of Human Capital. Signs: Journal of Wom
Petersen, E. B., & O’Flynn, G. (2007). Neoliberal technologies of subject formation
Gershon, I., Cohen, A. J., Ho, K., Sanders, T., Sykes, K., Wright, S., & Gershon, I. (2011). Neoliberal
Prügl, E. (2015). Neoliberalising feminism. New Political Economy, 20(4), 614-631.
Boas, T. C., & Gans-Morse, J. (2009). Neoliberalism: From new liberal philosophy
Peck, J., & Tickell, A. (2002). Neoliberalizing space. Antipode, 34(3), 380-404.
McRobbie, A. (2015). Notes on the perfect: Competitive femininity in neoliberal times. Australian
Lumby, C. (2011). Past the post in feminist media studies. Feminist Media Studies, 11(01), 95-100.
García-Favaro, L. (2015). ‘Porn Trouble’ On the Sexual Regime and Travels of Postfeminist Biologism. Australian
Gill, R. (2016). Post-postfeminism?: new feminist visibilities in postfeminist times. Feminist Media
Adamson, M. (2017). Postfeminism, neoliberalism and a ‘successfully’ balanced femininity in celebrity
Gill, R. (2007). Postfeminist media culture: Elements of a sensibility. European journal of
Burkett, M., & Hamilton, K. (2012). Postfeminist sexual agency: Young women’s negotiations of sexual
Binkley, S. (2011). Psychological life as enterprise: Social practice and the governm
McRobbie, A. (2011). Reflections on feminism, immaterial labour and the post-Fordist regime. New
Ringrose, J., & Walkerdine, V. (2008). Regulating the abject: The TV make-over as site of neo-liberal
Whelehan, I. (2010). Remaking feminism: or why is postfeminism so boring?. Nordic Journal of English
Feher, M. (2009). Self-appreciation; or, the aspirations of human capital. Public Culture, 21(1), 21-41.
McNay, L. (2009). Self as enterprise: Dilemmas of control and resistance in Foucault’s The
Arthurs, J. (2003). Sex and the City and consumer culture: Remediating postfeminist drama. Feminist Media
Ferreday, D. (2008). Showing the girl’ The new burlesque. Feminist Theory, 9(1), 47-65.
McRobbie, A. (2007). Top girls? Young women and the post-feminist sexual contract. Cultural Stud
Gill, R., & Orgad, S. (2015). The confidence cult (ure). Australian Feminist Studies, 30(86), 324-344.
Gane, N. (2014). The emergence of neoliberalism: Thinking through and beyond Michel Fo
Thorsen, D. E. (2010). The Neoliberal Challenge-What is Neoliberalism.
Scharff, C. (2016). The psychic life of neoliberalism: Mapping the contours of entre
Rottenberg, C. (2014). The rise of neoliberal feminism. Cultural studies, 28(3), 418-437.
Hochschild, A. (1997). The time bind. Working USA, 1(2), 21-29.
Kanai, A. (2017). The best friend, the boyfriend, other girls, hot guys, and creeps: the relational
Thompson, L., & Donaghue, N. (2014, December). The confidence trick: Competing constructions
O’Flynn, G., & Petersen, E. B. (2007). The ‘good life’ and the ‘rich portfolio’: Young women
Davies, B. (2005). The (im) possibility of intellectual work in neoliberal regimes. Discourse
Gane, N. (2014). Thinking historically about neoliberalism: A response to William
Nash, M., & Grant, R. (2015). Twenty-Something Girls v. Thirty-Something Sex And The City
Gill, R. (2014). Unspeakable inequalities: Post feminism, entrepreneurial subjectivity, and the
Gilroy, P. (2013). ‘… We got to get over before we go under…’ fragments for a history of black
Mudge, S. L. (2008). What is neo-liberalism?. Socio-economic review, 6(4), 703-731.
Kanai, A. (2015). WhatShouldWeCallMe? Self-branding, individuality and belonging in youthful
Gill, R. (2008). Culture and subjectivity in neoliberal and postfeminist times.
Binkley, S. (2011). Happiness, positive psychology and the program of neolib
Gill, R. (2016). Post-feminism and the new cultural life of feminism. Diffractions., 6, 1-8.
Fraser, N. (2013). Fortunes of feminism: From state-managed capitalism to neoliberal crisis. Verso Books.
Neoliberal meritocracy Book review. [Archived file title; complete citation not established.]
Springer, S. (2012). Neoliberalism as discourse: between Foucau
Rose, N. (1992). Governing the enterprising self. The values of the enterprise culture
Foucault, M. (1988). Technologies of the self. In Technologies of the self: A seminar
Brown, W. (2015). Undoing the demos. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Foucault, M., Davidson, A. I., & Burchell, G. (2008). The birth of biopolitics: lectures at
Sources and further reading
- Catherine Rottenberg, The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018)Publisher record; full text may require library access.
- Rosalind Gill, Postfeminist media culture (2007)Journal record and abstract. DOI: 10.1177/1367549407075898.
- ILO, Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work (2018)Institutional report on paid and unpaid care.
- Nikolas Rose, Governing the enterprising self (1992)Author’s bibliographic record. The old file name incorrectly suggests 1990.