Price: $34.95
Page Count: 279
Publication Date: September 2014
ISBN: 978-1-92645202-9
“Wide spectrum of issues are elaborated with a rich set of cases. This book offers insights for new public policy design focusing on well-being for everyone.”
—Gülay Günlük Şensen, Professor, Istanbul University
“Counting on Marilyn Waring provides a timely reminder of the politics and economics underpinning what, how and by whom activities and outputs are valued. For those concerned with social justice and sustainable futures this important and powerful book provides an invaluable and practical insight into issues that are in need of greater visibility.”
—Alison Preston, Professor, University of Western Australia
Review from Women’s Studies Association of New Zealand
Media Release for Counting on Marilyn Waring.
Feminist's ideas resonating in unlikely places - The New Zealand Herald - May 3, 2014
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Margunn Bjørnholt & Ailsa McKay
Advances in Feminist Economics in Times of Economic Crisis
Margunn Bjørnholt & Ailsa McKay
Feminist Economics as Vision for a Sustainable Future
Iulie Aslaksen, Torunn Bragstad & Berit Ås
Everything Needs Care: Toward a Context-Based Economy
Sabine O’Hara
Reflections on Unpaid Household Work, Economic Growth, and Consumption Possibilities
Iulie Aslaksen & Charlotte Koren
Women’s Unpaid Work Was Counted But. . .
Johanna Varjonen & Leena M. Kirjavainen
Accounting For Death: Infant Mortality, the MDGs, and Women’s (Dis)Empowerment
Monica J. Casper & William Paul Simmons
Substantive Equality, Stockholm Syndrome and the Costs of Child Sexual Abuse
Shirley Jülich
A Pacific Way of Counting
Tagaloatele Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop
Narrative Trumps Numbers: Marilyn Waring in the World
Rod Dobell, with Jodie Walsh
If Mothers Counted: Status Symbols for the Invisible Art of Mothering
Hadara Scheflan Katzav & Shira Richter
Whose Rights Count? A Research Journey with Marilyn Waring on Unpaid HIV Care and the Economics of Dignity
Meena Shivdas & Anit N. Mukherjee
Rural, Northern Canadian Women’s Caregiving Experiences in the Context of Economic Values
Heather I. Peters, Dawn Hemingway, Anita Vaillancourt & Jo-Anne Fiske
Creating Conceptual Tools for Change: Marilyn Waring’s Influence in Australia
Marty Grace & Lyn Craig
Making Mothers’ Milk Count
Julie P. Smith
Resilient Feminism: Social Movement Strategy in a Conservative Regnum
Mara Fridell & Lorna Turnbull
Counting Embodied Learning: Marilyn Waring and Feminist Pedagogical Practice
Jill Eichhorn
Post-graduate Supervision with MJW
Karen Webster
List of Contributors
Margunn Bjørnholt is Director of Policy and Social Research in Norway and holds degrees in sociology and international economics. Her research interests include work–family arrangements and gender equality, alternative financial institutions, public sector reform, and feminist legal theory and social justice.
Ailsa McKay is Professor in Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University. She is a founding member of the Scottish Women’s Budget Group and a member of the Scottish Governments Equality and Budgets Advisory Group.
