Authors: Adrienne Evans, Sarah Riley
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Key cultural shifts have enabled a "new sexualization" of women. Neoliberal, consumerist, and postfeminist media culture have shaped ways of understanding female sexuality, embodied by the figure of the choosing, empowered, entrepreneurial consumer citizen-woman, whose economic capital determines feminine success (and failure). Informed by older constructs of privilege such as