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COMMUNICATION AND CRITICAL-CULTURAL STUDIES
卷 16, 期 2, 页码 140-158出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2019.1634276
关键词
commodity activism; female empowerment; ethical capitalism; White-Savior Industrial Complex; postcolonial feminisms
Discourses of female empowerment are increasingly prominent within ethical capitalism, which seeks to remedy global crises with private-sector solutions and their commodities. This article examines the intersecting manifestations of female empowerment, commodity activism, and ethical capitalism with case studies on Born Free Africa, a fashion collection combatting mother-to-child HIV transmission, and THINX, which sells period-proof panties. Each company articulates empowerment through a binary between the Western feminist savior and in-need woman of the global south. This article argues that this iteration of empowerment not only reinforces logics of neo-colonial capitalism, but also masks disciplinary regimes for individual feminine subjects.
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