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Queer Economics: A Reader

Queer Economics: A Reader BO OK REVIEWS show the many different ways that religion factors into economic, political, and social decisions, both in broad cultural patterns and in the everyday choices women make within the overlapping levels and kinds of agency they employ. This volume goes a long way toward correcting the view that religion is something that has ‘‘returned’’ and that is wielded primarily as a political tool by grand institutions or violent insurgents. Rather, religion here depicted, is a web of practices, everyday and transcendent, making meaning of the world, intersecting with other frames of reference, and giving and limiting agency to and for the women who engage in it as a form of life. Understanding religion as a form of life and a set of practices will contribute to a more thorough analysis of the reasons that impel economic decision making and the forces that limit and enable women’s economic empowerment. The rather too general conflation of religion with communitarian politics critiqued above may not be entirely the fault of the authors and may instead speak to a larger problem in interdisciplinary work around this topic. Although disciplines as diverse as economics, women’s and gender studies, political science, and religious http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Feminist Economics Taylor & Francis

Queer Economics: A Reader

Sneeringer, Stacy
Feminist Economics , Volume 15 (4): 5 – Oct 1, 2009
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BO OK REVIEWS show the many different ways that religion factors into economic, political, and social decisions, both in broad cultural patterns and in the everyday choices women make within the overlapping levels and kinds of agency they employ. This volume goes a long way toward correcting the view that religion is something that has ‘‘returned’’ and that is wielded primarily as a political tool by grand institutions or violent insurgents. Rather, religion here depicted, is a web of practices, everyday and transcendent, making meaning of the world, intersecting with other frames of reference, and giving and limiting agency to and for the women who engage in it as a form of life. Understanding religion as a form of life and a set of practices will contribute to a more thorough analysis of the reasons that impel economic decision making and the forces that limit and enable women’s economic empowerment. The rather too general conflation of religion with communitarian politics critiqued above may not be entirely the fault of the authors and may instead speak to a larger problem in interdisciplinary work around this topic. Although disciplines as diverse as economics, women’s and gender studies, political science, and religious

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