Review by Choice Review
The 17 essays Juffer (Cornell Univ.) compiles here explore the complex challenges millennials face in a shifting workplace marked by uncertainty and instability and compounded by issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Each contributing writer holds an undergraduate degree in some iteration of feminist studies, and the essays show writers wrestling with how to integrate feminist theory learned in the undergraduate classroom into the workplace outside the supportive structure of undergraduate programs suffused with theory. Written in different styles and from different theoretical perspectives, the chapters are organized into five sections. Each is devoted to a different workplace sector--nonprofit organizations, business, pedagogy, health and medicine, and media--allowing readers to see the challenges particular to each field. Taken together, the essays show just how difficult it is for millennial feminists to navigate workplaces with complex hierarchal systems that often devalue their work. Juffer's excellent introduction argues for undergraduate programs to more deliberately prepare students to take theory beyond the classroom, preparing them to traverse a fluctuating economy marked by gig work. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals. --Candace Anne Nadon, Fort Lewis College
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
Review by Choice Review
