Gendered States of Punishment and Welfare: Feminist Political Economy, Primitive Accumulation and the Law

ISBN-13: 9780367878733 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 204 str.

Adrienne Roberts

Opis

This book presents a feminist historical materialist analysis of how the law, policing and penal regimes have overlapped with social policies to coercively discipline the poor and marginalized sectors of the population throughout the history of capitalism. It explores issues related to the nature of the capitalist state, the creation and protect

Spis treści

Introduction

The Anglo-American Lockdown

Towards a Feminist Historical Materialism

Competing Explanations

A Note on Case Studies and Approach

Outline and Organization of the Argument

1. The Making of Global Capitalism: A Feminist Historical Materialist Analysis

Premise 1: The Law as Primitive Accumulation

Premise 2: Primitive Accumulation as a Gendered Process

Premise 3: The Law as Part of the Gendered Social Ontology of Capitalism

2. The Law, Private Property and the Gendered Poor in the Transition to Capitalism

Poverty, Poor Laws and the Bloody Legislation

The Legal Regulation of Gender

The Early Capitalist Gender Order

3. The Liberal Governance of Criminality and the Myths of Laissez-Faire

The Rise of ‘Liberal’ Governance: Legitimacy, Crowd and the Problem of Poverty

The (Gendered) Ideology of Liberal Political Economy

Disciplining and Responsibilizing the Poor and Criminalized Population: The New Poor Laws, Prisons and the Police

The Gendered Dimensions of Nineteenth Century Governance

4. The Modern Governance of Poverty and Criminality: Penal-Welfare Paternalism

The Rise of Penal-Welfare Paternalism: Monopoly Capitalism, Organized Labour and the Breakdown of Laissez-Fairism

Theorizing Penal-Welfare Paternalism

Reproducing Class, Gender and Race through the Paternal Penal-Welfare State

5. Governing of Social Marginality in an Era of Disciplinary Neoliberalism

The Neoliberal Governance of Criminality

The Neoliberal State and the Power-Production-Social Reproduction Nexus

On-Going Primitive Accumulation and the Criminalization of Homelessness

6. Producing Gendered Precariou

O autorze

Adrienne Roberts is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester, UK.　She works in the areas of IPE, feminist political economy, finance, debt and debt-driven development. Her work has been published in a number of leading academic journals.