Women's Economic Empowerment: Feminism, Neoliberalism, and the State

Challenging the simplistic story by which feminism has become complicit in neoliberalism, this book traces the course of globalization of women’s economic empowerment from the Global South to the Global North and critically examines the practice of empowering low-income women, primarily migrant, indigenous and racialised women. The author argues that women’s economic empowerment organizations become embedded in the neoliberal re-organization of relations between civil society, state and market, and in the reconfiguration of relations between the personal and the political. Also examined are the contractual nature of institutional arrangements in neoliberalism, the ontological divide between economy and society, and the marginalisation of feminist economics that persists in the field of women’s economic empowerment. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of social sciences, gender studies, sociology, and economics. 

 

This book is based on the author’s doctoral dissertation at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. 

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Women's Economic Empowerment: Feminism, Neoliberalism, and the State

Challenging the simplistic story by which feminism has become complicit in neoliberalism, this book traces the course of globalization of women’s economic empowerment from the Global South to the Global North and critically examines the practice of empowering low-income women, primarily migrant, indigenous and racialised women. The author argues that women’s economic empowerment organizations become embedded in the neoliberal re-organization of relations between civil society, state and market, and in the reconfiguration of relations between the personal and the political. Also examined are the contractual nature of institutional arrangements in neoliberalism, the ontological divide between economy and society, and the marginalisation of feminist economics that persists in the field of women’s economic empowerment. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of social sciences, gender studies, sociology, and economics. 

 

This book is based on the author’s doctoral dissertation at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. 

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Women's Economic Empowerment: Feminism, Neoliberalism, and the State

Women's Economic Empowerment: Feminism, Neoliberalism, and the State

by Inna Michaeli
Women's Economic Empowerment: Feminism, Neoliberalism, and the State

Women's Economic Empowerment: Feminism, Neoliberalism, and the State

by Inna Michaeli

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Challenging the simplistic story by which feminism has become complicit in neoliberalism, this book traces the course of globalization of women’s economic empowerment from the Global South to the Global North and critically examines the practice of empowering low-income women, primarily migrant, indigenous and racialised women. The author argues that women’s economic empowerment organizations become embedded in the neoliberal re-organization of relations between civil society, state and market, and in the reconfiguration of relations between the personal and the political. Also examined are the contractual nature of institutional arrangements in neoliberalism, the ontological divide between economy and society, and the marginalisation of feminist economics that persists in the field of women’s economic empowerment. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of social sciences, gender studies, sociology, and economics. 

 

This book is based on the author’s doctoral dissertation at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783030892814
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 01/03/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 386 KB

About the Author

Inna Michaeli is a sociologist who has been deeply involved in feminist and social movements for over two decades. Through her research, she has explored intersections of feminism and neoliberalism as well as identity and belonging, economic globalisation and knowledge production. She currently works at AWID, a global feminist organization.

Table of Contents

1.Introduction: Economic Empowerment Between Feminism and Neoliberalism.- 2. The Globalisation of Women’s Economic Empowerment.- 3. The Neoliberal Contract: Civil Society, State and Market.- 4. Radical Feminists, Mainstream Economics.- 5. Construction of the Entrepreneurial Self.- 6. Economic Empowerment, Ethno-National Citizenship.- 7. Conclusion: A Feminist Always Pays Her Debts.

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