Overview
- Draws upon original, empirical research that includes qualitative interviews with feminists
- Incorporates a diversity of perspectives from feminists across generations and across race/ethnicity
- Draws on neoliberalism, postcolonialism, and intersectionality theories?
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book investigates how neoliberalism shaped the women’s movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand from the mid-1980s to late 2010s and looks at the future of the movement. Based on an empirical study that encompasses the three levels of the movement—individualised feminism, the work of women’s organisations, and state feminism—it explores how neoliberal rationality, promoted by governments over three decades, has impacted feminist identification and activism as well as political opportunities for organisations and institutions working within the movement. Exploring the diversity of feminist voices, the author analyses intersectional, (post)colonial and intergenerational debates within the movement in the context of neoliberalism’s influence on feminist values and strategies, and examines whether neoliberal rationality succeeded in depoliticising, individualising and fragmenting the movement. The book comes to the conclusion that despite some severe drawbacks, internal conflicts and changes of strategies, the women’s movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand has survived the impact of neoliberalism.
This book will be of interest to scholars of Gender Studies, Sociology, Political Science, and Women’s History, as well as feminist activists.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Julia Schuster received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Auckland in 2014 and held a post-doctoral position at the Johannes Kepler University Linz from 2014 to 2020, researching in the fields of intersectionality theory, discrimination against minorities, and women’s movements. Since 2020, she works at Statistics Austria—Austria’s Federal Statistic Office—on migration statistics, while publishing the in the areas of her expertise.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neoliberalism and its Impact on the Women's Movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Book Subtitle: Where Have All the Feminists Gone?
Authors: Julia Schuster
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95523-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95522-9Published: 01 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95525-0Published: 02 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-95523-6Published: 28 February 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 219
Topics: Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Social Philosophy, History, general, Politics and Gender