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• W940903622 abstract "This thesis reports on a study of young women’s experiences, aspirations and relationship tofeminism in the contemporary socio-political context. It brings a feminist analysis to newsocial theories about late modernity by exploring the particular relationship that youngwomen have to the social and psychological processes that are associated with thisreconfigured climate and the prevailing ideology of neo-liberalism.A feminist theoretical framework informs all features of the research. It underpins thejustification and context for the area of inquiry, the choice of methodology, the use ofmethods and the analytical lens for the interpretation of literature and data. The researchemploys a qualitative methodology. Data was collected through semi-structured interviewswith fifty five young women aged between eighteen and twenty five. The participants allresided in the Townsville/Thuringowa area and represented diversity in terms of race, class,sexuality, parenting status and education.The growing influence of neo-liberalism and its dovetailing with feminism has ushered in theconcept of a modernised, assertive and liberated femininity which celebrates the democraticopening up of choices and unprecedented options for girls and women, particularly in theareas of education and employment. The findings presented in this thesis identify that beingfemale in these conditions is not to experience a simple and unproblematic expansion ofchoice or liberation from previous constraint, rather that they entail ‘difficult freedoms’.Whilst the vast majority of participants report the benefits of these changes and a belief inmeritocracy, their experiences and opportunities are strongly mediated by race, class andeducational experience, and significantly complicated by primary responsibility for parentingand domestic work. The research found the continuation of many material barriers andcircumscriptions in the areas of education, occupational preference, mothering anddomesticity and a high incidence of male violence in intimate relationships and familybackgrounds. Inequalities that are generated socially are overwhelmingly understood byyoung women through a ‘politics of choice’. A punitive interpretive framework ofindividualism is strongly endorsed and this is reflected in their assessment of feminism. Thisstudy identifies subjective adjustments to this epistemological leaning which includetechniques of discounting or distancing themselves from negative interpretations of their owndisadvantage or adversity and the relational consequences of resentment and a chilling ofempathy towards others in hardship.The thesis concludes that young women are located in a changed context of power. Thehegemonic operation of neo-liberalism allows subordination to occur covertly within aframework of ostensible commitment to equality, the valorisation of choice and throughseductive incitements to individual responsibility and self-management. Liberating processeswhich are supposed to be freeing for women are actually involved in re-inscribing theirsubordinate status. The research contributes to contemporary feminist theory and activismand to social policy and welfare practice by restating the relevance of structural perspectivesand signalling the necessity of incorporating knowledge of the epistemological and subjectivedispositions outlined in this research." @default.
• W940903622 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W940903622 creator A5041490245 @default.
• W940903622 date "2010-06-13" @default.
• W940903622 modified "2023-09-26" @default.
• W940903622 title "The Politics of Choice: Difficult Freedoms for Young Women in Late Modernity" @default.
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