Abstract

Political Economy is inundated with foundational dichotomies, which constitute central concepts in its theorizing. Feminist scholarship has problematized the gender subtext of these dichotomies and the resulting blind spots, including the positioning of women’s labour, processes of reproduction, and private households as marginal to the economy. The paper offers a reading of contemporary writings in Feminist Political Economy that is attuned to disrupting binaries. It interrogates first, how the opposition between production and reproduction is today put into question through the development of a care economy and through new theorizations of social reproduction. Second, it questions the spatial opposition between the public and the private, the state and the household, an opposition that has long been a problem for those earning income in private spaces and that is increasingly rendered untenable in feminist literature that historicizes household governance. By destabilizing the gendered binaries of production/reproduction and public/private Feminist Political Economy brings into view blind spots in existing scholarship, including imbrications between logics of accumulation and public purpose, self-interest and care, and private household governance and the state, thereby opening up new thinking space for alternatives.

摘要

政治经济学充斥着基本的二分法，这些二分法构成了其理论上的核心概念。女权主义的奖学金使这些二分法的性别潜台词和由此产生的盲点成为问题，包括妇女的劳动力定位，生育过程和私人家庭在经济上处于边缘地位。本文提供了对女性主义政治经济学当代著作的阅读，该著作被认为会破坏二进制文件。它首先质疑，今天如何通过护理经济的发展和社会再生产的新理论来质疑生产与再生产之间的对立。其次，它质疑公共与私人，国家与家庭之间的空间对立，一个长期以来一直是私人空间中收入者的难题的反对派，在使家庭治理具有历史意义的女权主义文学中变得越来越站不住脚。通过破坏生产/再生产和公共/私营女权政治经济学中的性别二元稳定，可以将现有学术中的盲点纳入视野，包括积累与公共逻辑，自利与关怀逻辑，私人家庭治理与国家之间的冲突。为替代品开辟新的思维空间。