Liberating Economics - 9780472068432

The University of Michigan Press

Liberating EconomicsFeminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization\nAuthor(s): Drucilla Barker, Susan F. Feiner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472068432, 978-0472068432\nSynopsis\nLiberating 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.\n\nRooted in the two disciplines, this book.