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Wil (Australia) (2009/05/05): The blurb: Sexual Economyths redefines economics from a feminist perspective. Taking private labour in the household as her starting point Beasley offers a fundamental re-evaluation of concepts, categories, and methods of economic analysis which marginalise women. Beasley argues that even feminist models of economics continue to rely on market-based models, yet these models cannot fully take into account the specificity of women's labour. Rather than trying to make women 'count' within conventional economic paradigms, she demonstrates how an analysis of the household economy highlights their inadequacy. Sexual Economyths then moves beyond a critique of existing economic frameworks to offer an alternative agenda for a feminist economics, an original feminist political economy.
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