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Is Austerity Gendered?
The Future of Capitalism 1. Aufl.
10,99 € |
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Verlag: | Wiley |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 28.01.2021 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781509526994 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 140 |
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<p>Austerity has dominated the policy agenda in the past decade. Although it appeared to end with the COVID-19 pandemic, a return to harsh cutbacks in the future cannot be ruled out.</p> <p>In this incisive analysis, Diane Perrons shows that while austerity policies have devastating effects on people's lives, their gendered dynamics are particularly conspicuous: budget cuts have been overwhelmingly aimed at services used by women. She shows how the gender aspects of this economic and social catastrophe intersected with a range of other factors, making the experience of austerity very different for different groups - and highly unjust. Not only that, it undermined responses to COVID-19.</p> <p>She finishes by critiquing the justifications for austerity policies and asks whether there are compelling alternatives that can re-invigorate economies and societies after the pandemic, and avoid a return to austerity. This compelling book will be essential reading for activists, policymakers and students of feminist political economy everywhere.</p>
Table of contents:<br /><br />Chapter 1: Introduction: Austerity, Gender and COVID-19<br /><br /> Chapter 2: Gendered Impact of Austerity<br /><br /> Chapter 3: The Austerity Deception: Gendered Economics<br /><br /> Chapter 4: Alternative Futures<br /><br /> Notes<br /><br /> References
<p>‘This succinct book cuts through the seemingly neutral language used to justify austerity policies to reveal the intersecting inequalities, with gender at their heart, that such policies perpetrate.’<br /><b>Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics</b></p> <p>‘A clear and accessible account of the fundamentally gendered nature of austerity, and a prescient reminder of the inequities that COVID-19 may deepen – unless we embrace the credible alternatives offered by Diane Perrons in this book.’<br /><b>Hannah Bargawi, SOAS University of London</b></p>
<b>Diane Perrons</b> is Professor of Economic Geography and Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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