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a time when women are being exhorted to "lean in" and work harder to get ahead, Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism encourages both women and men to "let go" instead.
The book explores alternatives to the belief that individual achievement, accumulation, and attentionseeking are the road to happiness and satisfaction in life.
Letting go demands a radical recognition that the values, relationships, and structures of our neoliberal competitive, striving, accumulating, consuming, exploiting, oppressive society are harmful both on a personal level and, especially important, on a social and environmental level.


There is a huge difference between letting go and "chilling out, " In a leanin society, selfcare is promoted as something women and men should do to learn how to "relax" and find a comfortable worklife balance.
By contrast, a feminist lettinggo and its attendant selfcare have the potential to be a radical act of awakening to social and environmental injustice and a call to activism.
This book questions the compulsive chasing of "success" that characterizes American society, I found Gerbrandt and Kurtz's chapter about class and academia particularly insightful and relevant, Donna King is an associate chair of sociology and criminology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, King is also a longtime and active member of the feminist

organization Sociologists for Women in Society, .