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

• Autore: Barker Drucilla K. <1949-2023.>
• Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.082
• Soggetto topico: Feminist economics; Women - Employment; Families - Economic aspects; Globalization
• Altri autori: FeinerSusan
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Feminist perspectives on families, work, and globalization
• Titolo autorizzato: Liberating economics
• ISBN: 0472068432; 9786612423123; 9781282423121; 1282423126; 9780472022311; 0472022318
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910968923403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Advances In Heterodox Economics