‘Confidence you can carry!’: girls in crisis and the market for girls' empowerment organizations
Banet-Weiser, Sarah
(2015)
‘Confidence you can carry!’: girls in crisis and the market for girls' empowerment organizations
Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 29 (2).
pp. 182-193.
ISSN 1030-4312
Girl empowerment organizations (GEOs) emerged in the USA around the same time that empowering girls became a central theme in international development discourse. I argue that these organizations are part of a ‘market of empowerment’ that aims to empower girls within a context of commodified girl power and neoliberal entrepreneurialism.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2015 Taylor & Francis |
| Departments | Media and Communications |
| DOI | 10.1080/10304312.2015.1022938 |
| Date Deposited | 11 Jul 2018 14:00 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/89201 |