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Book SynopsisThis collection sets out how a gendered approach to political economy can help us understand the inherently gendered structures that characterise our society, and provide the foundation for a truly interdisciplinary social science.
Trade Review'...the book illuminates the various ways that gender analysis is important to the relatively broad purview of the new political economy.' - Contemporary Sociology
Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Towards Gendered Political Economy; J.Cook & J.Roberts PART I Gendered Political Economy and Feminist Analysis; G.Waylen Rational Economic Families? Economics, the Family and the Economy; J.Humphries Gender and Family in the Formation of Human Capital; J.Gardiner Gender at the Macroeconomic Level; D.Elson Inclusion/Exclusion: The Janus Face of Citizenship; R.Lister PART II Comparative Perspectives on Gender and Citizenship: Latin America and the Former Socialist States; M.Molyneux Flexible Employment - Implication for a Gendered Political Economy of Citizenship; J.Cook The Restructuring of the Gendered Political Economy: Transformations in Women's Employment; S.Walby New Dimensions to Gendered Power Relations in Families; C.Smart Globalization, Gender and Migration: The Case of International Marriage in Japan; N.Piper The Political Economy of Social Reproduction: The Case of Cuba in the 1990s; R.Pearson Index
