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Moving beyond a narrow definition of economics, this pioneering book advances our knowledge of global political economy and how we might critically respond to it. Two features of the global economy increasingly determine everyday lives worldwide. The first is explosive growth in financial markets that shapes business decision-making and public policy-making, and the second is dramatic growth in informal and flexible work arrangements that shapes income-generation and family well-being. These developments, though widely recognized, are rarely analyzed as inextricable and interacting dimensions of globalization. Using a new theoretical model, Peterson demonstrates the interdependence of reproductive, productive and virtual economies and analyzes inequalities of race, gender, class and nation as structural features of neoliberal globalization. Presenting a methodologically plural, cross-disciplinary and well-documented account of globalization, the author integrates marginalized and disparate features of globalization to provide an accessible narrative from a postcolonial feminist vantage point.

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'This is an innovative and significant reconceptualization of global political economy that lets us recognize a host of issues that other frameworks leave obscure and helps us understand the deep connections among politics, reproduction, and the information age economy.' - Professor Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College, USA 'Here is feminist political economy at its very best. Neatly synthesizing an array of studies on globalization, feminist economics, and social theory, and drawing on feminist, Marxist, postcolonial and world-system insights, Spike Peterson has produced an outstanding (and accessible!) study of contemporary economic, political, and cultural processes. With conceptual sophistication and clarity, she elucidates the links among the productive, reproductive, and virtual economies, and draws attention to the gendered ideologies, identities, and institutions that constitute each. Her feminist explication of the virtual economy is especially original. The book is bound to become a classic.' - Dr Valentine M. Moghadam, Illinois State University, USA

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V. Spike Peterson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Arizona. She is the editor of Gendered States and the co-author (with Anne Sisson Runyan) of Global Gender Issues.

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