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Radical Political Economy and the State: Lessons from Gender Theory

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Feminist analyses of the state and public policy imply that the state should be treated as a site for the generation of social practices that can either reproduce or transform existing gender, racial-ethnic, and class relations. For this reason, discussing the state as an abstract, timeless construct holds little meaning. It is argued that the state is better viewed not simply as a lifeboat for women and other groups who are relatively disempowered in markets, not merely as a bandage for “market failures,†but rather as one of three sites, along with markets and families, where economic provisioning occurs.

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  • Ellen Mutari, 2003. "Radical Political Economy and the State: Lessons from Gender Theory," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 35(3), pages 296-303, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:35:y:2003:i:3:p:296-303
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