1st Edition
Gendered States of Punishment and Welfare Feminist Political Economy, Primitive Accumulation and the Law
Introduction
The Anglo-American Lockdown
Towards a Feminist Historical Materialism
Competing Explanations
A Note on Case Studies and Approach
Outline and Organization of the Argument
1. The Making of Global Capitalism: A Feminist Historical Materialist Analysis
Premise 1: The Law as Primitive Accumulation
Premise 2: Primitive Accumulation as a Gendered Process
Premise 3: The Law as Part of the Gendered Social Ontology of Capitalism
2. The Law, Private Property and the Gendered Poor in the Transition to Capitalism
Poverty, Poor Laws and the Bloody Legislation
The Legal Regulation of Gender
The Early Capitalist Gender Order
3. The Liberal Governance of Criminality and the Myths of Laissez-Faire
The Rise of ‘Liberal’ Governance: Legitimacy, Crowd and the Problem of Poverty
The (Gendered) Ideology of Liberal Political Economy
Disciplining and Responsibilizing the Poor and Criminalized Population: The New Poor Laws, Prisons and the Police
The Gendered Dimensions of Nineteenth Century Governance
4. The Modern Governance of Poverty and Criminality: Penal-Welfare Paternalism
The Rise of Penal-Welfare Paternalism: Monopoly Capitalism, Organized Labour and the Breakdown of Laissez-Fairism
Theorizing Penal-Welfare Paternalism
Reproducing Class, Gender and Race through the Paternal Penal-Welfare State
5. Governing of Social Marginality in an Era of Disciplinary Neoliberalism
The Neoliberal Governance of Criminality
The Neoliberal State and the Power-Production-Social Reproduction Nexus
On-Going Primitive Accumulation and the Criminalization of Homelessness
6. Producing Gendered Precariou
Biography
Adrienne Roberts is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. She works in the areas of IPE, feminist political economy, finance, debt and debt-driven development. Her work has been published in a number of leading academic journals.
'Timely and trenchant, Roberts cogently demonstrates how primitive accumulation, punitive legislation and gendered oppressions are constitutive of capitalism’s historical and contemporary practices – with corollary implications for centralizing gendered and racialized processes in analyses of, and struggles against, today’s global lockdown.' - V Spike Peterson, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
'In this fascinating study, Adrienne Roberts combines a historical analysis with the so called ‘extra-economic’ forms of coercion. As such it focuses on crime, criminalization, discipline and punishment from a feminist historical materialist perspective. By including these ‘extra-economic forms’ it sheds light on a largely neglected area in IPE of the increasing criminalization of poor women.' - Brigitte Young, University of Münster, Germany
'Powerfully argued, well documented, and treating a subject at the center of social activism and political debate, Adrienne Roberts' book is a major contribution to a feminist analysis of the disciplining of women in capitalist society.' - Silvia Federici, Hofstra University, USA
