ISBN:
9780773531031
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (336 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Reproduction : Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-Liberalism
DDC:
305.420971
Keywords:
Feminist economics ; Canada
;
Feminist theory ; Canada
;
Sex discrimination against women ; Canada
;
Women ; Canada ; Economic conditions
;
Women ; Canada ; Social conditions
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Contributors include Sedef Arat-Koç (Ryerson), Kate Bezanson (Brock), Susan Braedley, (PhD candidate, York), Barbara Cameron (York), Marcia Cohen (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC), Marjorie Griffin Cohen (Simon Fraser), Bonnie Fox (Toronto), Meg Luxton (York), Leah F. Vosko (York), and Alice de Wolff (Toronto-based researcher and activist).
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
""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""
Description / Table of Contents:
""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""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
