Gender, Care and Economics

By Jean Gardiner

This book offers a radical critique of mainstream, Marxist and feminist economic theories, ranging from the classical liberal economics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the feminist debates about domestic labour and patriarchy in the late twentieth century. It explores the increasing importance of household care relations, especially childcare, in shaping the domestic labour process. Trends in household gender relations and working patterns in Britain are explored in the context of political ideas and policies regarding the state, the economy, gender and care.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333669940
• ISBN13: 9780333669945
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: MacMillan
• Length: 288 Pages