Is Confidence the Secret to Success? Not Exactly.
By Valeriya Safronova
Several years ago, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill noticed that a common message was being sent to women through advertisements, self-help books, music and other media: The solution to all their problems was to be more confident...
Over time, Gill said, they realized that "inequalities were being explained away through this psychological characteristic of confidence."
Their research is distilled in "Confidence Culture," a feminist cultural critique that will be published by Duke University Press on Feb. 9. The book skewers the notion that the challenges women face in work, sex, relationships and parenting can be chalked up to self-esteem, rather than to social structures.
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