This essay shows how race and gender are central to the rhetorical production of neoliberal political economy. It examines how the mainstream and feminist-appearing movement for girls’ empowerment is in service of the continued production of neoliberal political economy and in service of cultivating a benevolent public based on a sense of economic exceptionalism—a new form of the bourgeois public sphere that values neoliberalism and positive actions of charity and goodwill taken on another’s behalf. The production of neoliberal political economy and the formation of a benevolent neoliberal public sphere, particularly around girls’ empowerment, is animated by racialized and gendered girl-empowerment discourses which link particular young brown bodies to arguments about girls’ potential (economic and otherwise), educational aspirations, economic investment, and international security.

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说得好：新自由主义政治经济学的善意的公共和言辞生产

本文说明了种族和性别如何成为新自由主义政治经济学修辞产生的核心。它研究了赋予女孩权力的主流和出现的女权运动是如何为新自由主义政治经济的持续生产提供服务，以及如何基于经济例外主义的意识培养一个仁慈的公众-资产阶级公共领域的一种新形式重视新自由主义以及代表他人采取的慈善和善意的积极行动。新自由主义政治经济学的产生和仁慈的新自由主义公共领域的形成，特别是在赋予女孩权力方面，受到种族化和性别平等的女孩赋权论述的推动，这些论述将特定的年轻棕色身体与关于女孩潜力（经济或其他方面）的争论联系起来，教育愿望，