Is Austerity Gendered?

Is Austerity Gendered?
Diane Perrons
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4 Mar 2021 UK
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9781509526963
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Austerity dominated the policy agenda in the past decade. Although it temporarily ended owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, a return to harsh cutbacks in the future cannot be ruled out. In this incisive analysis, Diane Perrons shows that, while austerity policies have devastating effects on many people' s lives, their gendered dynamics are particularly conspicuous: budget cuts have been overwhelmingly aimed at services that support women. She shows how the gender aspects of this economic and social catastrophe intersected with a range of other factors - running from social class, race, and ethnicity, to citizenship status, dis(ability) and geographical location. This made the experience of austerity very different for different groups - and highly unjust. Not only that, but it undermined responses to COVID-19. She finishes by critiquing the justifications for austerity policies and asking whether there are compelling alternatives that can inform how we reinvigorate our economy and society after the pandemic and help us avoid a return to austerity. This compelling book will be essential reading for activists, policymakers and students of feminist political economy everywhere. ?
' This succinct book cuts through the seemingly neutral language used to justify austerity policies to reveal the intersecting inequalities, with gender at their heart, which such policies perpetrate. Showing how we were left ill-prepared for COVID-19, Perrons also identifies hopeful alternative policies for the recovery. ' Naila Kabeer, London School of Economics' 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. ' Hannah Bargawi, SOAS University of London
Diane Perrons is Professor of Economic Geography and Gender Studies at the London School of Economics.
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ISBN-13: 9781509526963
Published: 4 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Publisher: Polity Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 140

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