Given that economic gains for women have not fulfilled the hopes of second wave feminism, it is possible to read the raunch aesthetic as accommodation and giving in rather than as evidence of a new stage of emancipator work. Faradism was a major object of critique by feminists in the 1970s, because it combined work with traditional ideologies of gender roles (Yates, A. 2007: p. 33). While the percentage of women in the workplace has increased since the advent of flexible economies under so-called post-Fordism, there are still entrenched inequalities in patterns of employment, and women tend to be over-represented in temporary positions and positions without steady benefits (Yates, A. 2007: p. 33). Additionally, there seem to be heightened divisions among women by class. Some scholars of the U.K., for instance, contend that there is a minority of white, middle-and upper-class women who…(short extract)

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