TY - BOOK T1 - Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement Y1 - 2015 A1 - Nadasen, Premilla KW - domestic workers KW - domestic-worker organizing KW - feminism KW - gender KW - organizing KW - race AB -

In this groundbreaking history of African American domestic-worker organizing, scholar and activist Premilla Nadasen shatters countless myths and misconceptions about an historically misunderstood workforce. Resurrecting a little-known history of domestic-worker activism from the 1950s to the 1970s, Nadasen shows how these women were a far cry from the stereotyped passive and powerless victims; they were innovative labor organizers who tirelessly organized on buses and streets across the United States to bring dignity and legal recognition to their occupation. Dismissed by mainstream labor as “unorganizable,” African American household workers developed unique strategies for social change and formed unprecedented alliances with activists in both the women’s rights and the black freedom movements. Using storytelling as a form of activism and as means of establishing a collective identity as workers, these women proudly declared, “We refuse to be your mammies, nannies, aunties, uncles, girls, handmaidens any longer.” With compelling personal stories of the leaders and participants on the front lines, Household Workers Unite gives voice to the poor women of color whose dedicated struggle for higher wages, better working conditions, and respect on the job created a sustained political movement that endures today.

PB - Beacon Press CY - Boston L2 - eng ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law, and Society Y1 - 2005 A1 - Fineman, M. A1 - Dougherty, T. KW - critical legal studies KW - economics KW - feminism KW - feminist economics KW - feminist legal theory KW - gender KW - law AB -

The Law and Economics school has had a significant impact on the legal and governmental landscape in the United States. It posits a perfectly rational "economic man"—homo economicus—who is unconstrained by familial and communal ties and who can and should make decisions solely in light of considerations of economic value. Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus offers a major intervention in debates about how law has come under the influence of economic principles. Drawing on the latest thinking in the fields of feminist legal theory, critical legal studies, and feminist economics, the essays critique the notion that legal and policy decisions should be made solely through the lens of economics. While the contributors question the wholesale incorporation of the neoclassical economic model into legal analysis, they do not all discard economic analysis and theory.

Situated at the intersection of feminism, law, and economics, Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus will appeal to scholars and students of these disciplines as well as policy analysts and social theorists interested in family, education, labor, and welfare. (from Amazon.com)

PB - Cornell University Press CY - Ithaca, N.Y. SN - 0801443113 9780801443114 0801489415 9780801489419 L2 - eng N1 - ID: 56755756 ER -