Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-LiberalismMeg Luxton, Kate Bezanson McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2006 - 323 pages Using a feminist political economy approach, contributors document the impact of current socio-economic policies on states, markets, households, and communities. Relying on impressive empirical research, they argue that women bear the costs of and responsibility for care-giving and show that the theoretical framework provided by feminist analyses of social reproduction not only corrects the gender-blindness of most economic theories but suggests an alternative that places care-giving at its centre. In this illuminating study, they challenge feminist scholars to re-engage with materialism and political economy to engage with feminism. |
Contents
Social Reproduction and Feminist Political Economy | 3 |
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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Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-Liberalism Kate Bezanson,Meg Luxton No preview available - 2013 |
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