Handbook on the international political economy of gender. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Juanita Elias, Adrienne Roberts.
• Editors: Elias, Juanita; Roberts, Adrienne, 1980-
• Contents: Front Matter; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: situating gender scholarship in IPE; PART I THEORIES AND APPROACHES; 1. Problematic premises: positivism, modernism and masculinism in IPE; 2. The production of life itself: gender, social reproduction and IPE; 3. Postcolonial feminism; 4. Liberalism, feminism and the global political economy of liberal feminism; 5. Constructivist thought in feminist IPE: tracking gender norms; 6. Gender, IPE and poststructuralism: problematizing the material/discursive divide; 7. Queer theory and feminist political economy 8. A feminist institutionalist approach to IPE and genderPART II ENGAGEMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES; 9. Close(d) encounters: Feminist Security Studies engages Feminist (International) Political Economy and the return to basics; 10. Gender and development; 11. Feminist engagements with everyday life 12. Multiple dimensions of gender inequality: engaging the state in IPE; 13. The political economy of post-conflict violence against women; 14. Perspectives on private security: the myth, the men and the markets; 15. Feminist perspectives on the UN Women ;s Empowerment Principles 16. Social reproduction: from welfare to the global prison?PART III GOVERNING MARKETS AND ECONOMIES; 17. Financialization, unconventional monetary policy and gender inequality; 18. Microfinance: empowering women and/or depoliticizing poverty?; 19. Remittances in the global political economy; 20. Financial crises in historical perspective; 21. Feminist political economy perspectives on gender expertise; 22. The World Bank and the challenge of the Business Case ; for feminist IPE; 23. Gender mainstreaming at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 24. The diverse economy: feminism, Capitalocentrism and postcapitalist futuresPART IV THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PEOPLE AND THINGS; 25. Women and unfree labour in the global political economy; 26. Transnational care work and the care crisis 27. Marketization, commodification and privatization of care services; 28. Sex work; 29. Migrant and domestic and care workers: unfree labour, crises of social reproduction and the unsustainability of life under vagabond capitalism 30. Gender, migration and social reproduction; 31. Industrialization, feminization and mobilities 32. The gender dynamics of trade33. Critical perspectives on gender, food and political economy; 34. The global political economy of beauty; Index
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 522 pages)
• Subjects: 330.9; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies; Feminist economics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Economics -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Microfinance -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Feminist theory -- Political aspects -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Reference; Gender studies, gender groups; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Economy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Reference; Political economy; Reference works; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783478842; 1783478845
• Related ISBNs: 1783478837; 9781783478835
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 14, 2018).
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