Towards a Gendered Political Economy

Part 1 Gendered political economy and feminist analysis; rational economic families? - economics, the Family and the economy; gender and family in the formation of human capital; gender at the macroeconomic level; inclusion/exclusion - the Janus face of citizenship. Part 2 Comparative perspectives on gender and citizenship: Latin America and the former socialist states; flexible employment - implication for a gendered political economy of citizenship; the restructuring of the gendered political economy - transformations in women's employment; new dimensions to gendered power relations in families; globalization, gender and migration - the case of international marriage in Japan; the political economy of social reproduction - the case of Cuba in the 1990s.