Liberating Economics, Second Edition - 9780472074730

Liberating Economics, Second EditionFeminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization\nAuthor(s): Drucilla Barker, Suzanne Bergeron, Susan F. Feiner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472074730, 978-0472074730\nSynopsis\nIn this brand-new critical analysis of economics, Barker, Bergeron, and Feiner provide a feminist understanding of the economic processes that shape households, labor markets, globalization, and human well-being to reveal the crucial role that gender plays in the economy today. \n\n With all new and updated chapters, the second edition of Liberating Economics examines recent trends in inequality, global indebtedness, crises of care, labor precarity, and climate change. Taking an interdisciplinary and intersectional feminist approach, the new edition places even more emphasis on the ways that gender, race, class, sexuality, and nationality shape the economy. It.