{"product_id":"lean-out-isbn-9781910924020","title":"Lean Out","description":"\u003cb\u003eSheryl Sandberg’s business advice book, \u003ci\u003eLean In,\u003c\/i\u003e was heralded as a defining moment in attitudes to women in business. But for all its commercial success, it proposed a model of feminism that was individualistic and unthreatening to capital.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her powerful debut work \u003ci\u003eLean Out,\u003c\/i\u003e acclaimed journalist Dawn Foster unpicks how the purportedly feminist message of Sandberg’s book neatly exempts patriarchy, capitalism and business from any responsibility for changing the position of women in contemporary culture. It looks at the rise of a corporate ‘1% feminism’, and at how feminism has been defanged and depoliticised at a time when women have borne the brunt of the financial crash and the gap between rich and poor is widening faster than ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Surveying business, media, culture and politics, Foster asks whether this ‘trickledown’ feminism offers any material gain for women collectively, or acts as mere window-dressing PR for the corporations who caused the financial crash. She concludes that ‘leaning out’ of the corporate model is a more effective way of securing change than leaning in.“Rarely does ‘essential reading’ really mean that you urgently need to read a book. But \u003ci\u003eLean Out\u003c\/i\u003e is different: the argument that a society that promotes ‘aspiration’ must rely on outliers is just one of its many gems. There is a danger that corporate feminism will enter academia and will not be recognised for the aberration that it is.\u003ci\u003eLean Out\u003c\/i\u003e is the antidote. Just 87 pages long, it is well worth the many hours it takes to read and absorb.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder professor of geography, University of Oxford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A very important, much-needed and well-researched book that isn’t afraid to ask the right questions and demand answers. It is a straight-talking, timely call to arms” -\u003ci\u003e Independent on Sunday \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"Vigorous…trenchant…a robust critique…it’s conclusion is both inevitable and startling” - Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eExcellent…forward-looking”\u003ci\u003e -  \u003c\/i\u003eSarah Leonard, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “...much more than just a riposte to the popular business manifesto for women. Fascinating, thought-provoking and at times outrage-inducing, \u003ci\u003eLean Out\u003c\/i\u003e elucidates the many ways in which women are being subjugated by corporations and the government, and encourages us to take direct action to address these inequalities.” - Ariane Sherine, Huffington Post\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDawn Foster\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and journalist. She is a columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and writes for the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDissent\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eProspect\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. She won the IBP Young Journalist of the Year award in 2014. Her book \u003ci\u003eLean Out \u003c\/i\u003e(Repeater, 2015) was shortlisted for the 2017 Bread and Roses Award and her journalism was longlisted for the 2017 Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils.If 1% Are Leaning In, What are the Other 99% Supposed to Do?","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300031713509,"sku":"NP9781910924020","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781910924020.jpg?v=1767731229","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/lean-out-isbn-9781910924020","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}