Privatization, Law, and the Challenge to Feminism / / ed. by Brenda Cossman, Judy Fudge.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Condon, Mary,; Cossman, Brenda,; Fudge, Judy,; Gilmour, Joan M.,; Macklin, Audrey,; Martin, Dianne L.,; Mykitiuk, Roxanne,; Philipps, Lisa,
• HerausgeberIn: Cossman, Brenda,; Fudge, Judy,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.)

Privatization has caused a large reconfiguration of the relations between the state, the market, and the family in the late twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries, all of which has had a profound effect on the lives of women. This collection of essays address this timely issue by examining e...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Contributors
• Introduction: Privatization, Law, and the Challenge to Feminism
• PART I. Reproducing the Market
• 1. Tax Law and Social Reproduction: The Gender of Fiscal Policy in an Age of Privatization
• 2. From Segregation to Privatization: Equality, the Law, and Women Public Servants, 1908-2001
• 3. Privatizing Pension Risk: Gender, Law, and Financial Markets
• PART II. Producing the Social Body
• 4. Family Feuds: Neo-Liberal and Neo Conservative Visions of the Reprivatization Project
• 5. Public Entrance / Private Member
• PART III. The Self-Reliant Citizen: Social Health and Public Order
• 6. Creeping Privatization in Health Care: Implications for Women as the State Redraws Its Role
• 7. Public Bodies, Private Parts: Genetics in a Post-Keynesian Era
• 8. Both Pitied and Scorned: Child Prostitution in an Era of Privatization
• Conclusion: Privatization, Polarization, and Policy: Feminism and the Future
• References