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Exhaustion as evidence

European Journal of Women's Studies

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Abstract

European Journal of Women's Studies, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 302-310, May 2026.
This essay examines the contemporary normalisation of exhaustion within feminist, activist and academic spaces, arguing that burnout is frequently misdiagnosed as an individual failure rather than understood as a structural condition. Drawing on Black ...