Academics and professionals working with young women face a series of paradoxes. Over the last 20 years, the lives of young women in the UK and Europe have been transformed. They have gained considerable freedom and independence, but at the very same time, new, less tangible forms of constraint and subordination now play a defining role in the formation of their everyday subjectivities and identities. Young women have come to exemplify the pervasive sensibility of self-responsibility and self-organisation. This new gender regime demands both conceptualisation and practical response,...
Academics and professionals working with young women face a series of paradoxes. Over the last 20 years, the lives of young women in the UK and Eur...