Hello!
Thank you SO much for helping me out. I am in a third year political science course on the feminist political economy. Ive attached a course description below. This paper I want to be written from this feminist approach.
Id like my topic to focus on this general topic:
Social reproductive labour in capitalism, such as “unskilled” care work in long-term care facilities, nurse aids in hospitals, and paid and unpaid domestic work, are made invisible, and of no value or of little value. The current covid-19 virus pandemic has heightened the visibility and value of workers who are engaged in these social reproductive labour categories.
These are our main books we discussed: Federici, Silvia and A. Austin, eds., The New York Wages for Housework Committee 1972-1977, 2nd edition, Autonomedia, 2018. Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, edited. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Haymarket Books, 2017.
I have attached the syllabus because it has all of the links that would be of value to you, as opposed to me copying them all out for you. Within the time table schedule it easily addresses the topics and what readings are beneficial. Ive attached 2 powerpoints with great background knowledge, a checklist of what the paper should have and the syllabus to have better access to the readings. Thank you so so much.
Course Description: Feminist political economy (FPE) grew out of feminist movements of the 1970s. It subsequently has established itself as a systematic interdisciplinary field. “FPE is an approach that understands social difference—including, but not limited to, gender—to be integral to the functioning of political-economic systems and knowledge production processes. FPE foregrounds how capitalism is reproduced through logics and practices that create and marshal [intersectional] difference into its categories of value.” (Werner et al., 2017, p. 2) At the centre of feminist political economy is the collective feminist effort, in both activism and academic work, to make social reproduction in capitalism visible and valuable. In other words, what labour is in capitalism has to be re-conceptualized to include not just productive, but social reproductive labour. The course thus expands our understanding of the political-economic realm, with respect to time, the body, and the private.