Liberating Economics, Second Edition by Drucilla Barker

Liberating Economics, Second Edition by Drucilla Barker

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.

Readable and not too theoretical, this work is a valuable resource for anyone interested in an introduction to feminist economicsIt is also appropriate for use as a text for introductory courses on women and the economy. Summing up: Highly recommended." - Choice

"Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title

"A welcome addition to critical feminist literature on mainstream economics and it will be of interest to all who want to develop an alternative, socially progressive understanding of economy." - Feminist Theory

Drucilla K. Barker is Professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina

Suzanne Bergeron is Helen Mataya Graves Collegiate Professor, Women's Studies and Social Sciences, University of Michigan Dearborn

Susan F. Feiner is Professor of Economics, Professor of Womens and Gender Studies, University of Southern Maine, Retired

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ISBN 13	9780472054732
ISBN 10	0472054732
Titel	Liberating Economics, Second Edition
Autor	Drucilla Barker
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The University of Michigan Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2021-02-28
Seitenanzahl	240
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