SOAN 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gloria Steinem, If You Love This Planet, Neon Sign

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2040
• Professor: D Rose

Document Summary

Marilyn waring is a former new zealand parliament member, elected in 1975 when she was 22, who has since become a vocal critic of the standard cost-benefit analysis of labor and productivity. Waring"s argument, however, is holistic rather than gender-partisan, surveying a wide range of matters, including the. Productivity that wars generate, through the prism of the dismissal of the value of women"s work at home. This official view, waring and nash contend, is nuts. The question holds a double meaning, referring to who fixes value, according to what set of priorities, and to who and what in this scheme is being. Nash, who has also edited, interweaves two strands of material, one following. Waring"s argument about global economics, and the other providing information about waring herself a single fabric, since waring"s sensitive experience of the world informs her views.