Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems - An Intersectional Political Economy (Folbre Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

A major new work of feminism on the history and persistence of patriarchal hierarchies from the MacArthur Award-winning economist

In this groundbreaking new work, Nancy Folbre builds on a critique and reformulation of Marxian political economy, drawing on a larger body of scientific research, including neoclassical economics, sociology, psychology, and evolutionary biology, to answer the defining question of feminist political economy: why is gender inequality so pervasive? In part, because of the contradictory effects of capitalist development: on the one hand, rapid technological change h
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