Social Reproduction : Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-Liberalism

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. -- Provided by publisher 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 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). Using a feminist political economy approach, this work documents the impact of socio-economic policies on states, markets, households, and communities. It challenges feminist scholars to re-engage with materialism and political economy to engage with feminism.