Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-LiberalismMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2006 M10 2 - 336 pages 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). |
Contents
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1 Feminist Political Economy in Canada and the Politics of Social Reproduction | 11 |
2 Social Reproduction and Canadian Federalism | 45 |
3 Whose Social Reproduction? Transnational Motherhood and Challenges to Feminist Political Economy | 75 |
4 Bargaining for Collective Responsibility for Social Reproduction | 93 |
A Strategy for Eliminating Pay Equity in Health Care | 117 |
The Case of Ontarios Early Years Plan | 145 |
Gender and Household Insecurity in the Late 1990s | 173 |
Gender Class and Social Reproduction | 215 |
The Many Ways in Which Intensive Mothering Is Entangled with Social Class | 231 |
A Case Study of the Role of Informal Caregiving in Social Reproduction | 263 |
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Other editions - View all
Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-Liberalism Kate Bezanson,Meg Luxton No preview available - 2013 |
Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-liberalism Meg Luxton,Kate Bezanson No preview available - 2006 |
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