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- Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Georgia Press
- Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
summary
This edited collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life. The volume explores new terrain in social reproduction with a focus on the challenges posed by evolving theories of embodiment and identity, nonhuman materialities, and diverse economies.Reflecting and expanding on ongoing debates within feminist geography, with additional cross-disciplinary contributions from sociologists and political scientists, Precarious Worlds explores the productive possibilities of social reproduction as an ontology, a theoretical lens, and an analytical framework for what Geraldine Pratt has called “a vigorous, materialist transnational feminism.”Contributors: Kate Bezanson, Susan Braedley, Jessie H. Clark, Kelly Dombroski, Rosalind Fredericks, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Cindi Katz, Meg Luxton, Brian Marks, Sallie A. Marston, Katie Meehan, Katharyne Mitchell, Oona Morrow, Brenda Parker, Barbara Ellen Smith, Kendra Strauss, Jamie Winders
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. xvii
- Part One: State Transformations
- Part Two: Re-placing Care
- Part Three: Bodies and Barriers
- Part Four: Working Materialities
- Conclusion: Demanding Life’s Work
- pp. 174-188
- Contributors
- pp. 189-190
Additional Information
ISBN
9780820348803
Related ISBN(s)
9780820348810
MARC Record
OCLC
930760343
Pages
200
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No