Capitalist Co-optation
Subtitle: Commodification of Self-Care
By: Lucy Danger, Joelle Santiago, Klarizsa Padilla, and Phoebe Yusim
Publisher: the authors
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Students; Self-care, Health; History; Footbinding; Foot fetishism; Personal Beauty; Barnard College
Description: Colorfully collaged and complete with hand drawn and handwritten examples, students of Barnard's 2018 "Gendered Controversies" course challenge the liberal notions of the commercialized self-care industry. They include a penned timeline of the usage of the term first coined by Audre Lorde (featured on the cover), magazine collages and illustrations of examples from companies selling you stress-beating essential oils and Barnard-sanctioned cupcake breaks, and quotes from Cara Page, Aisha Harris, Deirdre Cooper and others offering us radical alternatives.
Notes: Cover title.

Made for Gendered Controversies class, taught in the spring semester of 2018 at Barnard College by Janet Jakobsen.

Gift; authors, 2018.