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Description for Gender Work
Paperback. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFK; JFSJ; JFSR; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
Recently, labor has acquired a re-emergent public relevance. In response, feminist theory urgently needs to reconsider the relationship between labor and gender. This book builds a theoretically-informed politics about changes in the gendered structure of labor by analyzing how the symbolic power of gender is put in the service of neoliberal practices. Goodman traces the cultural contextualization of 'women's work' from its Marxist roots to its current practices. From the income gap to the gendering of industries, Goodman explores and critiques the rise of corporate power under neoliberalism and the ways and whys that femininity has become one of its ... Read more
Recently, labor has acquired a re-emergent public relevance. In response, feminist theory urgently needs to reconsider the relationship between labor and gender. This book builds a theoretically-informed politics about changes in the gendered structure of labor by analyzing how the symbolic power of gender is put in the service of neoliberal practices. Goodman traces the cultural contextualization of 'women's work' from its Marxist roots to its current practices. From the income gap to the gendering of industries, Goodman explores and critiques the rise of corporate power under neoliberalism and the ways and whys that femininity has become one of its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349479603
SKU
V9781349479603
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About R. Goodman
Robin Truth Goodman is Professor in the Department of English at Florida State University, USA. Her publications include Infertilities: Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies (2001); Strange Love: Or, How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market (2002; with Kenneth J. Saltman); World, Class, Women: Global Literature, Education and Feminism (2004); Policing Narratives and the State of Terror (2009); ... Read more
Reviews for Gender Work
"This book marks a path-breaking turn in feminist theory, where feminism illuminates the transfigured conditions of contemporary global society under neoliberalism. Goodman brilliantly restores the primacy of labor and class to feminist theory, political analysis, and social agency alike. Her riveting analyses recasts culture and everyday life as they reframe the capital flows of globalization. What results is extraordinary: an ... Read more