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Beyond States and Markets: The Challenges of Social Reproduction book cover

1st Edition

Beyond States and Markets The Challenges of Social Reproduction

Edited By Isabella Bakker, Rachel Silvey Copyright 2008
224 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Seeking to extend our understanding of the contemporary global political economy, this book provides an important and original introduction to the current theoretical debates about social reproduction and argues for the necessity of linking social reproduction to specific contexts of power and production. It illustrates the analytic value of the concept of social reproduction through a series... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: Social Reproduction and Economic Globalization  1. New Constitutionalism and Social Reproduction  2. Towards Globalization with a Human Face  3. Global Integration of Subsistence Economies and Women’s Empowerment  4. Limits to Empowerment: Women in Microcredit Programs, South India  5. Human Trafficking as a Manifestation of Globalization  Part 2: Transnational Social Reproduction and the Crisis of Biological Reproduction  6. Working Women, the Biological Clock and Assisted Reproductive Technologies  7. Reproduction, Re-Reform and the Reconfigured State: Feminists and Neoliberal Health Reforms in Chile  8. States, Work, and Social Reproduction through the Lens of Migrant Experience: Ecuadorian Domestic Workers in Madrid  9. Managing Migration: Reproducing Gendered Insecurity at the Indonesian Border  10. Afterword

Biography

Isabella Bakker is Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Rachel Silvey is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Programme in Planning at the University of Toronto, Canada. 

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