ISBN:
9780203107935
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 319 Seiten)
Ausgabe:
Second edition
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Benería, Lourdes, 1937 - Gender, development, and globalization
DDC:
330.082
Schlagwort(e):
Gender Economics
;
Frauen
;
Globalisierung
;
Weibliche Arbeitskräfte
;
Entwicklung
;
Welt
;
Economic development Social aspects
;
Women in development
;
Globalization
;
Feminist economics
;
Feminist economics
;
Women in development
;
Globalization
;
Economic development Social aspects
;
Feminist economics
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Wirtschaftstheorie
;
Feminismus
;
Frau
;
Berufstätigkeit
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
Globalisierung
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Gender and Development: A Historical Overview -- Introduction -- In the Beginning There Was WID . . . -- Institutionalization of WID: The UN, CEDAW, and the Equity Agenda -- From WID to WAD to GAD -- The Challenges from Postmodernism and Women of the Global South -- The Rise and Rise of Neoliberal Policies -- Feminist Critiques of Neoliberal Policies -- The Case of WDR 2012 -- The Capabilities Approach and Human Development -- Alternative Frameworks of Well-being Require Alternative Measures -- The Human Rights Approach: Economic and Social Rights -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The Study of Women and Gender in Economics -- Introduction -- Gender and Economic Analysis: A History -- Neoclassical Approach -- Marxian Approach -- Institutional Economics -- Feminist Economics: A Critique of the Mainstream -- Critique of Homo Economicus -- The Rhetoric of Economics -- What Are We All Striving For? -- What is Economics? -- How Do We Know What We Know? -- A Methodological Convergence -- Gender as a Central Category of Economic Analysis -- The Economy as Constituted by Provisioning Activities -- Human Well-being as the Central Measure of Economic Success -- Human Agency is Important -- Ethical Judgments are Integral to Economic Analysis -- Intersectional Analysis -- Gender Inequalities in Provisioning Activities -- Wage Labor -- Beyond Wage Labor -- Asset Ownership, Credit, and Risk -- The Dynamics of the Household -- Macroeconomic Policies, Provisioning, and Well-being -- Critique of Neoliberal Macroeconomic Policies -- Alternative Macroeconomic Policies -- Feminist Ecological Economics -- Conclusions: Towards a More Inclusive Economics -- Notes.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 Gender and Development: A Historical Overview""; ""Introduction""; ""In the Beginning There Was WID . . .""; ""Institutionalization of WID: The UN, CEDAW, and the Equity Agenda""; ""From WID to WAD to GAD""; ""The Challenges from Postmodernism and Women of the Global South""; ""The Rise and Rise of Neoliberal Policies""; ""Feminist Critiques of Neoliberal Policies""
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
""The Case of WDR 2012""""The Capabilities Approach and Human Development""; ""Alternative Frameworks of Well-being Require Alternative Measures""; ""The Human Rights Approach: Economic and Social Rights""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 2 The Study of Women and Gender in Economics""; ""Introduction""; ""Gender and Economic Analysis: A History""; ""Neoclassical Approach""; ""Marxian Approach""; ""Institutional Economics""; ""Feminist Economics: A Critique of the Mainstream""; ""Critique of Homo Economicus""; ""The Rhetoric of Economics""; ""What Are We All Striving For?""
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
""What is Economics?""""How Do We Know What We Know?""; ""A Methodological Convergence""; ""Gender as a Central Category of Economic Analysis""; ""The Economy as Constituted by Provisioning Activities""; ""Human Well-being as the Central Measure of Economic Success""; ""Human Agency is Important""; ""Ethical Judgments are Integral to Economic Analysis""; ""Intersectional Analysis""; ""Gender Inequalities in Provisioning Activities""; ""Wage Labor""; ""Beyond Wage Labor""; ""Asset Ownership, Credit, and Risk""; ""The Dynamics of the Household""
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
""Macroeconomic Policies, Provisioning, and Well-being""""Critique of Neoliberal Macroeconomic Policies""; ""Alternative Macroeconomic Policies""; ""Feminist Ecological Economics""; ""Conclusions: Towards a More Inclusive Economics""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 3 Markets, Globalization, and Gender""; ""Introduction""; ""The Rise and Consolidation of Neoliberalism""; ""Economics and the Davos Man""; ""Commercialization and Financialization of Everyday Life""; ""Contested Commodities and Outsourced Lives""; ""Financialization of Lives""; ""Concentration of Wealth, Inequality, and Vulnerability""
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
""Concentration of Wealth""""Proletarianization""; ""Widening Income Inequalities""; ""Global Feminization of Labor""; ""Manufacturing""; ""Agriculture""; ""Services""; ""Migration""; ""Human Trafficking""; ""Discrimination and Patterns of Women's Integration in Paid Employment""; ""Feminization of Labor and the Dynamics of Gender Relations""; ""Liberating Effect""; ""Intensifying Effect""; ""Reconstitution of Gender Inequalities""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 4 Labor Markets under Globalization""; ""Introduction""; ""Firm Restructuring and Labor Flexibility""
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
""Consequences of Labor Market Restructuring""
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