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Smitha Radhakrishnan @professorsmitha.bsky.social · Jun 9

To receive this recognition after two decades of conversation and collaboration means everything 🎉 Written remotely through Covid and so many scales of disasters unfolding, we somehow put together a robust and timely contribution 😅 I can’t believe it!

Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · Jun 9

Congratulations @professorsmitha.bsky.social & @cinziasolari.bsky.social:
*The Gender Order of Neoliberalism* receives Honorable Mention from @asanews.bsky.social Sex & Gender Section’s Distinguished Book Award AND Marxist Sociology Section’s Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award!
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The Gender Order of Neoliberalism

The Gender Order of Neoliberalism, What do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the economic, political, ...

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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · Feb 28

Is the shift from #girlboss to #tradwife a step backward for feminism? Or are both these myths simply features of our stalled feminist imaginations?

@professorsmitha.bsky.social & @cinziasolari.bsky.social write @contexts.org → tinyurl.com/ycxn599k
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The Gender Order of Neoliberalism

The Gender Order of Neoliberalism, What do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the economic, political, ...

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Smitha Radhakrishnan @professorsmitha.bsky.social · Feb 27

Looking forward to sharing some new work on debt in India tomorrow. Link to the YouTube stream in the link below. watson.brown.edu/southasia/ev...

Smitha Radhakrishnan — Hidden Precarities: Indebtedness, Caste, and Breadwinning in Urban Uttarakhand, India | Center for Contemporary South Asia

The Center for Contemporary South Asia facilitates the study of South Asia from a multidisciplinary perspective. The center is based at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Bro...

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · Feb 21

Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Sociology scholars @professorsmitha.bsky.social & @cinziasolari.bsky.social write that hashtag feminism responds to White western women's binds, but overlooks global, utopic, liberatory feminist vision to help all struggling women tinyurl.com/FEAGirlboss

The title page of the article "Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Reclaiming Joy by Expanding Our Feminist Imagination," published in Contexts magazine.

A photo of multicultural women looking seriously at the camera. The caption reads: Collective, utopic thinking about women's empowerment has a long global history. Forgetting that history has impoverished feminist imaginations.

A chart divided into four quadrants along two axes: Having Less <--> "Having It All" and Doing Less <--> "Doing It All." The first quadrant, in the upper right, is labeled Lean-In and is US-Centric. It is high on the "Doing It All" and the "Having It All" axes. The second quadrant, in the lower left, is labeled Girlboss/Tradwife, and is closer to the high ends of the "Having Less" and "Doing Less" axes. Quadrant 3, upper left, is labeled Exhausted Global Women (most women's lived experience) and is high on the "Doing It All" and "Having Less" axes. And Quadrant 4, lower right, is labeled Transnational Feminism, is Global/transnational, and is high on the "Having It All" and "Doing Less" axes.

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Smitha Radhakrishnan @professorsmitha.bsky.social · Feb 19

Here’s the free pdf of my piece with @cinziasolari.bsky.social, just out today in Contexts magazine! We apply our understanding of the Gender Order of Neoliberslism, developed in our award-winning book, to consider how best to expand our feminist imaginations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Smitha Radhakrishnan @professorsmitha.bsky.social · Feb 19

Thanks for sharing! We are excited to have this piece out in the world!

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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · Feb 19

Smitha and I are thrilled to have our piece, "Beyond #Girlboss and #Tradwife: Reclaiming Joy by Expanding our Feminist Imagination" in this issue of Contexts!

Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · Feb 19

Our Winter '25 issue is now live and unpaywalled at journals.sagepub.com/toc/CTX/current! Want a clickable table of contents? Go here: contexts.org/articles/w25-toc/. Want a playlist for all this sociology, with songs inspired by the articles in this issue? Go here: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Io...

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