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Book Review: Restructuring Caring Labour: Discourse, State Practice, and Everyday Life

Book Review: Restructuring Caring Labour: Discourse, State Practice, and Everyday Life Book Reviews 391 Restructuring Caring Labour: Discourse, State Practice, and Every day Life. Edited by Sheila M. Neysmith. Don Mills, Ontario, Canada: Oxford University Press, 2000, 253 pp., $24.95 (paper). Feminists who are concerned with the global economy, human agency, and women’s oppression will find Restruc- turing Caring Labour packed with strong theoretical analyses and practical insights and instructions. The complex critiques in this book discuss globalization and restructuring, intensely disputed in economic and political circles; agency and power, central to recent inquiries in the social sciences; and social loca- tion and caring labor, well examined in feminist studies, tying them together to show the many facets of economic restructur- ing as they arrange various women’s choices of family and work and paid and unpaid labor. These analyses explore the less visible costs to women and suggest ways to redirect the tide of social discursive practices that produces these costs. For example, Jane Aronson considers how state practices cre- ate “narrow interpretations of needs and services, and, by implication, limited understandings of older women’s posi- tions” (p. 53) that do not correspond to the actualities of older women’s lives; Karen Swift and Michael Birmingham show “how the concept of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

Book Review: Restructuring Caring Labour: Discourse, State Practice, and Everyday Life

Solomon, Brenda
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work , Volume 16 (3): 2 – Aug 1, 2001
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Book Reviews 391 Restructuring Caring Labour: Discourse, State Practice, and Every day Life. Edited by Sheila M. Neysmith. Don Mills, Ontario, Canada: Oxford University Press, 2000, 253 pp., $24.95 (paper). Feminists who are concerned with the global economy, human agency, and women’s oppression will find Restruc- turing Caring Labour packed with strong theoretical analyses and practical insights and instructions. The complex critiques in this book discuss globalization and restructuring, intensely disputed in economic and political circles; agency and power, central to recent inquiries in the social sciences; and social loca- tion and caring labor, well examined in feminist studies, tying them together to show the many facets of economic restructur- ing as they arrange various women’s choices of family and work and paid and unpaid labor. These analyses explore the less visible costs to women and suggest ways to redirect the tide of social discursive practices that produces these costs. For example, Jane Aronson considers how state practices cre- ate “narrow interpretations of needs and services, and, by implication, limited understandings of older women’s posi- tions” (p. 53) that do not correspond to the actualities of older women’s lives; Karen Swift and Michael Birmingham show “how the concept of

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