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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968923403321

Autore

Barker Drucilla K. <1949-2023.>

Titolo

Liberating economics : feminist perspectives on families, work, and globalization / / Drucilla K. Barker and Susan F. Feiner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2004

ISBN

0472068432

9786612423123

9781282423121

1282423126

9780472022311

0472022318

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Advances In Heterodox Economics

Altri autori (Persone)

FeinerSusan

Disciplina

330.082

Soggetti

Feminist economics

Women - Employment

Families - Economic aspects

Globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. ""Economics,"" She Wrote; Chapter 2. Family Matters: Reproducing the Gender Division of Labor; Chapter 3. Love's Labors-Care's Costs; Chapter 4. Women, Work, and National Policies; Chapter 5. Women and Poverty in the Industrialized Countries; Chapter 6. Globalization Is a Feminist Issue; Chapter 7. Dickens Redux: Globalization and the Informal Economy; Chapter 8. The Liberated Economy; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Liberating Economics draws on central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles of families, caring labor, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty, the feminization of labor, and the consequences of globalization. Barker and Feiner consistently recognize the importance of social location -- gender, race, class, sexual identity, and nationality



-- in economic processes shaping the home, paid employment, market relations, and the global economy. Throughout they connect women's economic status in the industrialized nations to the economic circumstances surrounding women in the global South.  Rooted in the two disciplines, this book draws on the rich tradition of interdisciplinary work in feminist social science scholarship to construct a parallel between the notions that the "personal is political" and "the personal is economic."   Drucilla K. Barker is Professor of Economics and Women's Studies, Hollins University. Susan F. Feiner is Associate Professor of Economics and Women's Studies, University of Southern Maine.