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Title:Studies in Political Economy : Developments in Feminism
Author:Caroline Andrew, Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Wallace Clement & Leah Vosko (eds)
ISBN:0889614121 : 9780889614123
Format:Paperback
Size:150x225mm
Pages:362
Weight: .48 Kg.
Published:Canadian Scholars' Press (Women's Press) - January 2003
List Price: 19.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Womens studies: Political economy


This collection brings together a number of significant articles from the annual journal Studies in Political Economy (SPE) that illustrate feminist political economy, reflect on the ways in which political economy (and SPE in particular) incorporates feminism, and examine the evolution of Canadian feminist analysis over the past twenty years. The book is intended to evoke several ideas: the ways in which political economy has thought about, reflected upon, and integrated feminism; the ways in which feminist ideology has been particularly insightful in providing ways for thinking through some of the central issues for a grounded Canadian political economy; the relation of theory and practice; and the relation of actors and structures. It is an invaluable teaching resource, as the articles are selected from across the twenty-year period of SPE's publishing history.

General Introduction; Beyond Sexless Class and Classless Sex: Towards Feminist Marxism; Spatially Differentiated Conceptions of Gender in the Workplace; The Retreat of the State and Long-Term Care Provision: Implications for Frail Elderly People, Unpaid Family Careers and Paid Home Care Workers; Changing Labour Process and the Nursing Crisis in Canadian Hospitals; The Domestication of Women's Work: A Comparison of Chinese and Portuguese Immigrant Women Home-workers; Flexible Work, Flexible Workers: The Restructuring of Clerical Work in a Large Telecommunications Company; Classes and States: Welfare State Developments, 1881-1981; The Conceptual Politics of Struggle: Wife Battering, the Women's Movement and the State; Depoliticising Insurgency: The Politics of the Family in Alberta; Conclusion: The Pasts (and Futures) of Feminist Political Economy in Canada: Reviving the Debate.