Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Labor has acquired a re-emergent public relevance and shown that feminist theory must reconsider the relationship between labor and gender. This book builds a theoretically-informed politics about changes in the gendered structure of labor by analyzing representations of how the symbolic power of gender is in the service of neoliberal practices.
Synopsis
1. The Gender of Working Time: Revisiting Feminist/Marxist Debates
2. Julia Kristeva's Murders: Neoliberalism and the Labor of the Symbolic
3. Feminist Theory's Itinerant Legacy: From Language Feminism to Labor Feminism
4. Girls in School: The 'Girls' School' Genre at the New Frontier
5. Gender Work: Feminism After Neoliberalism