[Commlist] new book: Confidence Culture

We would like to announce a new publication from Duke University Press, 
which we hope will be of interest.

*Confidence Culture***

*Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill***

*https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478017608/confidence-culture/* 
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“Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill’s brilliant study of the intersections 
within and between ‘confidence culture’ and neoliberal capitalism makes 
a vital contribution to how we think about gender, the body, and media. 
Complicating analyses on both the media representation and the user 
applications of the contemporary confidence movement, this crucially 
important book will appeal to media studies, American studies, and 
feminist scholars as well as a wide public audience.” - *Sarah 
Banet-Weiser, author of **/Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular 
Misogyny/***

In /Confidence Culture/, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that 
imperatives directed at women to “love your body” and “believe in 
yourself” imply that psychological blocks rather than entrenched social 
injustices hold women back. Interrogating the prominence of confidence 
in contemporary discourse about body image, workplace, relationships, 
motherhood, and international development, Orgad and Gill draw on 
Foucault’s notion of technologies of self to demonstrate how “confidence 
culture” demands of women near-constant introspection and vigilance in 
the service of self-improvement. They argue that while confidence 
messaging may feel good, it does not address structural and systemic 
oppression. Rather, confidence culture suggests that women—along with 
people of color, the disabled, and other marginalized groups—are 
responsible for their own conditions. Rejecting confidence culture’s 
remaking of feminism along individualistic and neoliberal lines, Orgad 
and Gill explore alternative articulations of feminism that go beyond 
the confidence imperative.

*Shani Orgad*is Professor of Media and Communications at the London 
School of Economics and Political Science and author of /Heading Home: 
Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality/.

*Rosalind Gill*is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at City, 
University of London, and author of /Gender and the Media/.

*Duke University Press**| February 2022 | 256pp | 9781478017608 | PB | 
£19.99**

*Price subject to change.

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