The 1990s saw the rebirth of political economy, a welcome shift from the specialized and narrow approaches that have increasingly characterized the disciplines of economics, politics and sociology, and one that has the potential to guide our research into the new millennium.

This collection sets out how a gendered approach to political economy can help us understand the inherently gendered structures that characterize our society, and provide the foundation for a truly interdisciplinary social science. It provides a comprehensive coverage of gendered political economy - what it is, where it is and, perhaps more importantly, how it should develop.

The twelve chapters that make up this book combine the development of a theoretical framework with empirical examples illustrating the core concerns of gendered political economy. They show how applying a gendered analysis can improve our understanding of social, political and economic structures, and the way in which individuals behave within these structures.

'...the book illuminates the various ways that gender analysis is important to the relatively broad purview of the new political economy.' - Contemporary Sociology

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Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Towards Gendered Political Economy; J.Cook & J.Roberts
PART I
Gendered Political Economy and Feminist Analysis; G.Waylen
Rational Economic Families? Economics, the Family and the Economy; J.Humphries
Gender and Family in the Formation of Human Capital; J.Gardiner
Gender at the Macroeconomic Level; D.Elson
Inclusion/Exclusion: The Janus Face of Citizenship; R.Lister
PART II
Comparative Perspectives on Gender and Citizenship: Latin America and the Former Socialist States; M.Molyneux
Flexible Employment - Implication for a Gendered Political Economy of Citizenship; J.Cook
The Restructuring of the Gendered Political Economy: Transformations in Women's Employment; S.Walby
New Dimensions to Gendered Power Relations in Families; C.Smart
Globalization, Gender and Migration: The Case of International Marriage in Japan; N.Piper
The Political Economy of Social Reproduction: The Case of Cuba in the 1990s; R.Pearson
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JOANNE COOK is a researcher on an EU (TSER) funded project on labour market participation and social exclusion. Her recent work includes the re-structuring of citizenship, flexible employment and welfare benefits policies in the UK and gendered political economy.

JENNIFER ROBERTS is a Lecturer in Health Economics at the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield. She is co-editor of The End of the Professions? The Restructuring of Professional Work. She has also published numerous articles concerned with political economy, finance and health economics.

GEORGINA WAYLEN is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Gender in Third World Politics and co-editor of Gender, Politics and the State.