The gendered nature of self-help
The gendered nature of self-help
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自助的性别本质
作者：
Sarah Riley;A. Evans;Emma Anderson;M. Robson
自助承诺有机会变得“更好”。在各种各样的平台上，包括书籍，应用程序和电视节目，它提供了希望，我们可以成为我们自己的变革者，过上更幸福的生活。批判性研究困扰着这一前提，认为在自助文学中发现的个人主义理想自我的反复出现的比喻是以在集体、女权主义或其他政治化的行动主义中寻求解决方案为代价的。自助也存在性别问题，因为女性往往被定位为特别需要改善，后女权主义的敏感性进一步加强了这种理解。这些问题在概念上进行了研究，然后介绍了三十年来发表在《女权主义与心理学》上的10篇关于自助的文章，并作为一个虚拟特刊汇集在一起，为学者和学生提供了大量的工作。
Self-help promises the chance of being “better”. Across multifarious platforms, including books, apps and television shows, it offers hope that we can be our own agents of change for a happier life. Critical research troubles this premise, arguing that the recurring trope of the individualistic ideal-self found in self-help literature is at the expense of seeking solutions in collective, feminist, or otherwise politicised activism. Self-help is also problematically gendered, since women are often positioned as particularly in need of improvement, an understanding further intensified by postfeminist sensibility. These issues are examined conceptually before introducing 10 articles on self-help published in Feminism & Psychology across three decades and brought together as a Virtual Special Issue to offer a significant body of work for scholars and students alike.