TY  - BOOK
AU  - Radhakrishnan, Smitha 
AU  - Solari, Cinzia D. 
TI  - The gender order of neoliberalism
SN  - 9781509544905
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Women -- Political activity
KW  - Women's rights
KW  - Neoliberalism
N2  - In this ambitious book, Radhakrishnan and Solari map the varied gendered pathways of a global hegemonic regime. Focusing on the US, the former Soviet Union, and South and Southeast Asia, they argue that the interconnected histories of imperialism, socialism, and postcolonialism have converged in a new way since the fall of the Soviet Union, transforming the post-war international order that preceded it. Today, the ideal of the empowered woman – a striving, entrepreneurial subject who overcomes adversity and has many “choices” – symbolizes modernity for diverse countries competing for status in the global hierarchy. This ideal bridges the painful gap between aspiration and lived reality, but also spurs widespread discontent
ER  -