New frontiers in feminist political economy / edited by Shirin M. Rai and Georgina Waylen.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Rai, Shirin M., 1960- editor.
• Waylen, Georgina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Women--Government policy.
• Social policy.
• Sex role.
• Women's rights.
• Women.

Physical Description:

xiii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

This volume brings together the work of outstanding feminist scholars who reflect on the achievements of feminist political economy and the challenges it faces in the twenty-first century. The volume further develops some key areas of research in feminist political economy - understanding economies as gendered structures, and economic crises as crises in social reproduction, as well as in finance and production; assessing economic policies through the lens of women's rights; analysing global transformations in women's work; making visible the unpaid economy in which care is provided for families and communities, and critiquing the ways in which policymakers are addressing (or failing to address) this unpaid economy. New Frontiers in Feminist Political Economy covers a wide range of issues such as trade, labour conditions and human rights, the nature of work and empowerment strategies, but brings these diverse topics together by viewing them through the twin lenses of feminist international political economy and feminist development theory. The essays are based on grounded empirical work, which makes them accessible to a general readership. This book should be a major reference text on many undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Feminist political economy : looking back, looking forward / Shirin M. Rai and Georgina Waylen
• Gendered, globalisation and the reproduction of labour : bringing the state back in / Ruth Pearson
• Gender production networks : pushes and pulls on corporate responsibility? / Stephanie Barrientos and Barbara Evers
• The rise of the female breadwinner : reconfigurations of marriage, motherhood, and masculinity in the global economy / Naila Kabeer
• Domesticating (and de-patriarchalizing) the development agenda : a need for greater household (and family) engagement in gender-related policy interventions? / Sylvia Chant and Katherine Brickell
• Addressing/reforming care, but on whose terms? / Shahra Razavi
• Gender as a macro economic variable / Irene Van Staveren
• Gender in economy-wide modelling / Marzia Fontana
• Gender, macroeconomic policy, and the human rights approach to social protection / Radhika Balakrishnan and Sonja Thomas
• Economic crises from the 1980s to the 2010s : a gender analysis / Diane Elson.

ISBN:

• 9780415539791
• 041553979X
• 9780415539814
• 0415539811

OCLC:

785869032