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In The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development, Kathryn Moeller presents a nuanced analysis of the co-constituting relationship between the emergence of adolescent girls as a unique demographic category in global development discourse, and the increased, highly visible participation of corporations in the project of development. Drawing on discursive analysis and ethnographic research, Moeller is particularly interested in why private foundations and corporations have increasingly chosen the empowerment of adolescent girls as the site through which to ‘do good’, and how their deployment of the ‘Girl Effect’ discourse depoliticises calls for global gender equality while upholding capitalist logic and exploitative corporate practices.
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Feminist Review is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal setting new agendas for the analysis of the social world. Currently based in London with an international scope, FR invites critical reflection on the relationship between materiality and representation, theory and practice, subjectivity and communities, contemporary and historical formations. The FR Collective is committed to exploring gender in its multiple forms and interrelationships. As well as academic articles we publish experimental pieces, visual and textual media and political interventions, including, for example, interviews, short stories, poems and photographic essays.
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