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Record Nr.

UNINA9910153191603321

Titolo

Privatization, vulnerability, and social responsibility : a comparative perspective / / edited by Martha Albertson Fineman, Titti Mattsson, Ulrika Andersson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-38752-2

1-315-38754-9

1-315-38753-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 pages)

Collana

Gender in Law, Culture, and Society

Disciplina

338.9/25

Soggetti

Privatization - Social aspects

Public-private sector cooperation - Social aspects

Public welfare

Social service

Women - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Taking a cross-cultural perspective, this book explores how privatization and globalization impact contemporary feminist and social justice approaches to public responsibility. Feminist legal theorists have long problematized divisions between the private and the political, an issue with growing importance in a time when the welfare state is under threat in many parts of the world and private markets and corporations transcend national boundaries. Because vulnerability analysis emphasizes our interdependency within social institutions and the need for public responsibility for our shared vulnerability, it can highlight how neoliberal policies commodify human necessities, channeling unprofitable social relationships, such as caretaking, away from public responsibility and into the individual private family. This book uses comparative analyses to examine how these dynamics



manifest across different legal cultures. By highlighting similarities and differences in legal responses to vulnerability, this book provides important insights and arguments against the privatization of social need and for a more responsive state.