Examining the Girlboss and Lean In Era of Corporate Feminism
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Summary
A podcast episode analyzing the "Girlboss" and "Lean In" era of corporate feminism from the 2010s, examining the cultural impact of Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In and Sophia Amoruso's #GIRLBOSS. The episode explores how society embraced corporate feminism and the subsequent decline of that movement.
Key quotes
· 3 pulled13 years ago, Sheryl Sandberg published Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
The following year, Sophia Amoruso published #GIRLBOSS.
The broad understanding of this period was that—for a few solid years—we widely embraced the edicts of 'corporate feminism' or 'Lean In feminism' or 'Girlboss feminism'
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