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Liberating Economics, Second Edition: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization
2021, 2nd Edition Drucilla K. Barker, Suzanne Bergeron, and Susan F. Feiner
In 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.
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 also highlights the centrality of social reproduction in economic systems and makes connections between the economic circumstances of women in global North and global South. Throughout, the authors reject the idea that there is no alternative to our current neoliberal market economy and offer alternative ways of thinking about and organizing economic systems in order to achieve gender-equitable outcomes.
Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of fields, policymakers, and any reader interested in creating just futures.
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 also highlights the centrality of social reproduction in economic systems and makes connections between the economic circumstances of women in global North and global South. Throughout, the authors reject the idea that there is no alternative to our current neoliberal market economy and offer alternative ways of thinking about and organizing economic systems in order to achieve gender-equitable outcomes.
Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of fields, policymakers, and any reader interested in creating just futures.
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Preface to the Second Edition
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Acknowledgments
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1. Introduction
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2. Family Matters
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3. Love’s Labors—Care’s Costs
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4. Gender, Work, and Policy in the United States
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5. Women’s Poverty in the Global North
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6. Globalization Is a Feminist Issue
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7. Gender Matters in the Global Labor Market
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8. Gender and Economic Development
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9. Debt, Gender, and Crisis Economics
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10. Creating Feminist Economic Futures
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Notes
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Select Bibliography
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Index
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2004, 1st Edition
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Published: 2021
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-05473-2 (paper)
- 978-0-472-07473-0 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-12842-6 (ebook)