Liberating Economics, Second Edition: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization

Barker, Bergeron, and Feiner's Liberating Economics provides a feminist understanding of the economic processes that shape households, labor markets, globalization, and human well-being, highlighting the crucial role of gender in the economy today. The second edition examines recent trends in inequality, global indebtedness, crises of care, labor precarity, and climate change, and offers alternative ways of thinking about and organizing economic systems to achieve gender-equitable outcomes.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 238 pages
Publication date: 30 March 2021
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press

Liberating Economics: A Feminist Introduction to the Global Economy is a groundbreaking book that provides a feminist understanding of the economic processes that shape households, labor markets, globalization, and human well-being. In this brand-new critical analysis, Barker, Bergeron, and Feiner offer a fresh perspective on the crucial role that gender plays in the economy today. With all new and updated chapters, the second edition 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 the 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.

Weight: 338g
Dimension: 153 x 228 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780472054732
Edition number: 2nd ed.