Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective

This book provides an extremely valuable resource for anyone interested in an analysis of key issues in feminist political economy. It is a very useful and timely book, which outlines the basic contours of a feminist political economy from a global perspective. The political economy approach, as the authors explain, is concerned with how structures of power in global, national, and local contexts influence the operation and outcomes of economic forces. The book combines feminist concerns with gender, and its intersection with other forms of inequality, with the typical approach of political economy. The authors examine the intersectional nature of inequality as an essential framework for understanding the diverse manifestations of power that operate in the domains of production and reproduction around the world, reconstituting, modifying, or transforming the institutions of states, markets, and families. The book presents a macroeconomic analysis of how the global division of labor between men and women, between paid and unpaid labor, and between families and markets, has emerged through the interplay of global forces, initially as an aspect of the colonial world order and then, in contemporary times, through the operation of the neocolonial order that has replaced it.