Alyson K. Spurgas

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Decolonize Self-Care Between The Lines	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! How to Have Amazing Sex (And Become Your Best Self in the Process) From: Decolonize Self-Care View Between The Lines	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! Introduction From: Decolonize Self-Care View Between The Lines	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! Marketing Self-Care From: Decolonize Self-Care View Between The Lines	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 Movements From: Decolonize Self-Care View Between The Lines	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 Coloniality From: Decolonize Self-Care View Between The Lines	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