Format:
1 online resource (362 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780521114073
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9780511927751
Content:
Ann Cudd and Nancy Holmstrom debate whether capitalism is valuable as an ideal for women. They cover a broad range of social and economic issues, and examine how to analyse effectively what constitutes 'capitalism' and 'women's interests'
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- Acknowledgments -- Part I -- 1 For capitalism as a feminist ideal and reality -- 1 Introduction -- Defining capitalism -- The defining conditions of capitalism -- Types of capitalism -- Opponents of capitalism -- Assessing the counterfactual: alternatives to capitalism -- Capitalism and regulation -- Feminist ideals -- Feminist political transformation -- Patriarchy, the anti-feminism -- 2 The empirical case for capitalism as an actually existing system -- Comparing the quality of human life in different social systems -- The historical case for capitalism -- Rising life expectancy -- Lower infant mortality and lower fertility -- Changing quality of life under capitalism -- Contemporary capitalist societies versus noncapitalist societies -- Summary of the empirical case for capitalism -- 3 The theoretical explanation of capitalism's success -- Competitive markets, economic efficiency, and equity -- Capitalist markets as aggregators of information -- Capitalism, production efficiency, and innovation -- Capitalist markets and freedom -- 4 Feminist critiques of capitalism -- Capitalism and exploitation -- The public-private divide -- Inequality under capitalism -- Psychological harms of capitalism -- Deformed preferences, false consciousness, and how to detect them -- 5 Fetishism -- The fetishism of tradition -- Freedom from fetishism -- 6 Enlightened capitalism: a feminist capitalist manifesto -- Part II -- 2 Against capitalism as theory and as reality -- 1 Introduction -- Current crisis -- Basic definitions -- "Capitalism" -- "Women's interests" -- Gender interests: strategic and practical -- 2 Capitalism in theory: ideals and limits -- On property, ownership, and freedom -- Primary virtues -- Political freedom and democracy
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Freedom, private property, and self-ownership -- Self-ownership: history and import of the concept -- Self-ownership: the contemporary debates -- Freedom/unfreedom in the abstract -- Internal obstacles -- Tests of the analysis -- A more ideal capitalism? -- In theory -- In history -- How ideal? The inevitability and importance of extreme inequalities -- The most basic inequality -- Freedom, self-realization, and alienation -- Summary conclusion of capitalism in theory -- 3 Capitalism in reality -- Compared with pre-capitalist societies -- Patriarchy: a contested concept -- Capitalism as tendentially better for women -- With respect to strategic gender interests -- With respect to practical gender interests -- Compared with so-called socialist societies -- Effects of transition to capitalism -- Gains and losses: sweatshops and worse -- Competitive market constraints -- Changed gender roles in context -- The global picture -- 4 Human interests are women's interests -- Capitalism's constraints on rationality -- 5 Conclusion: what is the alternative? and what should feminists do now? -- Part III -- 3 Ann Cudd's reply to Nancy Holmstrom -- The world's poor: who they are, where they live, what they do -- A false or confused picture of capitalism -- Capitalism: partial failures, partial successes, and progress -- Misunderstanding the economics of capitalism -- The critique of liberal feminism -- The alternative to capitalism -- 4 Nancy Holmstrom's reply to Ann Cudd -- Introduction: ideal versus nonideal theorizing -- "Capitalism" and "patriarchy": definitions and intersections -- What is capitalism? -- What is patriarchy? -- Sex, race, class, and justice -- Are class differences just? Class and freedom -- Health, well-being, and capitalism: the Smithian model -- Capitalist markets, information, and rationality: the Smithian model again
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Tradition/religion, fetishes, and desires -- Another world is possible: opening our imaginations -- Alternative models: markets versus planning -- bureaucratic versus democratic -- Bibliography -- FILMS/MOVIES -- WEBSITES -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Cudd, Ann E. Capitalism, for and Against Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2011 ISBN 9780521114073
Language:
English
Keywords:
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