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This paper aims at exploring neoliberalism where it has been internalisedand normalised as "neoliberal subjectivity''. Based on a Foucauldiandiscourse perspective, it analyses narrative interviews with young Swissadults focusing on their life plans and their aspirations for the futurefrom a gender perspective. The analysis documents a pronounced discourse ofindividualisation. The subjectivity of the interviewees is characterised byideas of difference, free choice and individualised responsibility forbiographical decisions and their consequences. The article uses the exampleof the interviewees' narratives on reconciling work and family to illustratehow the discourse of individualised responsibility works in detail and inwhich respects it constitutes "neoliberal subjectivity''. This Swiss studyreveals how the neoliberal self-concepts of the young adults absolve thestate, municipalities and employers of responsibility, transferring it tothe individual. Consequently, gendered social inequalities are framed as thesole result of individual preferences and thus privatised

Neoliberal subjectivity – difference, free choice and individualised responsibility in the life plans of young adults in Switzerland