Social reproduction [[electronic resource] ] : feminist political economy challenges neo-liberalism / / edited by Kate Bezanson and Meg Luxton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809651703321
• Autore: Bezanson Kate
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-282-86734-2; 9786612867347; 0-7735-7690-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): LuxtonMeg; BezansonKate
• Disciplina: 305.420971
• Soggetti: Women - Canada - Social conditions; Women - Canada - Economic conditions; Sex discrimination against women - Canada; Feminist economics - Canada; Feminist theory - Canada
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Social reproduction and feminist political economy / Kate Bezanson, Meg Luxton -- Feminist political economy in Canada and the politics of social reproduction / Meg Luxton -- Social reproduction and Canadian federalism / Barbara Cameron -- Whose social reproduction? Transnational motherhood and challenges to feminist political economy / Sedef Arat-Koc -- Bargaining for collective responsibility for social reproduction / Alice de Wolff -- Privatization : a strategy for eliminating pay equity in health care / Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Marcy Cohen -- Crisis tendencies in social reproduction : the case of Ontario's early years plan / Leah F. Vosko -- The neo-liberal state and social reproduction : gender and household insecurity in the late 1990's / Kate Bezanson -- Someone to watch over you : gender, class, and social reproduction / Susan Braedley -- Motherhood as a class act : the many ways in which 'intensive mothering' is entangled with social class / Bonnie Fox -- Friends, neighbours, and community : a case study of the role of informal caregiving in social reproduction / Meg Luxton.
• Sommario/riassunto: Contributors include Sedef Arat-Koç (Ryerson), Kate Bezanson (Brock), Susan Braedley, (PhD candidate, York), Barbara Cameron (York), Marcia Cohen (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC), Marjorie Griffin Cohen (Simon Fraser), Bonnie Fox (Toronto), Meg Luxton (York), Leah F. Vosko (York), and Alice de Wolff (Toronto-based researcher and activist).