Liberating economics: feminist perspectives on families, work, and globalization

Liberating draws on central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of economic roles of families, caring labor, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty, feminization of labor, and consequences of globalization. Barker and Feiner consistently recognize importance of social location -- gender, race, class, sexual identity, and nationality -- in economic processes shaping home, paid employment, market relations, and global economy. Throughout they connect women's economic status in industrialized nations to economic circumstances surrounding women in global South. Rooted in two disciplines, this book draws on rich tradition of interdisciplinary work in feminist social science scholarship to construct a parallel between notions that is political and the personal is economic.Drucilla K. Barker is Professor of Economics and Women's Studies, Hollins University.Susan F. Feiner is Associate Professor of Economics and Women's Studies, University of Southern Maine.