Social Reproduction : Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-Liberalism.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction: Social Reproduction and Feminist Political Economy -- 1 Feminist Political Economy in Canada and the Politics of Social Reproduction -- 2 Social Reproduction and Canadian Federalism -- 3 Whose Social Reproduction? Transnational Motherhood and Challenges to Feminist Political Economy -- 4 Bargaining for Collective Responsibility for Social Reproduction -- 5 Privatization: A Strategy for Eliminating Pay Equity in Health Care -- 6 Crisis Tendencies in Social Reproduction: The Case of Ontario's Early Years Plan -- 7 The Neo-liberal State and Social Reproduction: Gender and Household Insecurity in the Late 1990s -- 8 Someone to Watch over You: Gender, Class, and Social Reproduction -- 9 Motherhood as a Class Act: The Many Ways in Which "Intensive Mothering" Is Entangled with Social Class -- 10 Friends, Neighbours, and Community: A Case Study of the Role of Informal Caregiving in Social Reproduction -- Works Cited.

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.

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