Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Download or read book Counting on Marilyn Waring written by Margunn Bjørnholt and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume maps new advances in theories and practices in feminist economics and the valuation of women, care and nature since Marilyn Waring’s groundbreaking critique of the system of national accounts, If Women Counted (1988). It features theoretical, practical and policy oriented contributions, empirical studies, and new conceptualizations, theorizations and problematizations of defining and accounting for the value of nature and unpaid household work, eco-feminism, national and international policy processes, gender budgeting, unpaid care and HIV/AIDS policy, activism and artwork, and mirrors the wide-ranging impact and resonance of Waring’s work as well as the current frontiers of feminist economics.