Alyson K. Spurgas
Showing all 6 results
| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 NEW! Decolonize Self-Care |
Decolonize Self-Care mounts a sharply critical investigation into contemporary “self-care” practices—particularly those that embrace using mindfulness and other techniques such … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 284 | 2023 | View |
|
From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Decolonize Self-Care |
The authors contextualize modern self-care, its relation to corporate marketing, its individualization, and how the movement can be tied to intersecting systems of oppression including … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 49 | 2023 | $4.90 Add |
|
From NEW! How to Have Amazing Sex (And Become Your Best Self in the Process)From: Decolonize Self-Care |
Chapter 1 discussed women’s work, the gendered origins of multitasking, as well as sex as self-care. The authors detailed the idea that women are inherently prone to multitasking, therefore … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 43 | 2023 | $4.30 Add |
|
From NEW! Marketing Self-CareFrom: Decolonize Self-Care |
Chapter 2 discussed the modern prioritization of the personal benefits of self-care that are marketable and make white, rich, cis, and heteronormative femininity commodifiable. The authors … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 52 | 2023 | $5.20 Add |
|
From NEW! You Can Nourish Your Family and Climb the Ladder of Success! The White Neoliberal Feminism and Hip Domesticity of Food-Based Health MovementsFrom: Decolonize Self-Care |
Chapter 3 discussed food in relation to modern self-care movements and practices. The authors discussed gluten-free, other specialty diets, the colonial and Western history of natural food diets, … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 52 | 2023 | $5.20 Add |
|
From NEW! More Care, Less Self? How to (Hopefully) Move Beyond Complaint, Critique, and ColonialityFrom: Decolonize Self-Care |
Chapter 4 discussed the self-care industry’s use of social justice language as it continues to be a market that relies on inspiration and appropriation of indigenity and other cultural … | Alyson K. Spurgas; Zoë Meleo-Erwin | 36 | 2023 | $3.60 Add |
