Cooperation & Conflict in the Patriarchal Labyrinth

This essay offers a new way of visualizing structures of collective power based on gender, emphasizing the role of social institutions in shaping women’s ability to bargain over the distribution of the gains from cooperation with men. It makes the case for an interdisciplinary conceptualization of b...

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Published inDaedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Vol. 149; no. 1; pp. 198 - 212
Main Author Folbre, Nancy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA MIT Press 01.01.2020
Subjects
Bargaining
Citizenship
Concept formation
Cooperation
Educational activities
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity
Female roles
Gender
Interdisciplinary aspects
Intersectionality
Labyrinth
Membership
Men
Minority & ethnic groups
Political economy
Politics
Power
Race
Racial identity
Sexes
Sexuality
Social institutions
Women
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Summary:This essay offers a new way of visualizing structures of collective power based on gender, emphasizing the role of social institutions in shaping women’s ability to bargain over the distribution of the gains from cooperation with men. It makes the case for an interdisciplinary conceptualization of bargaining power that emphasizes the role of imperfect information and inefficient outcomes, and explains important parallels between structures of collective power based on gender, age, and sexuality, and those based on other dimensions of socially assigned group membership such as race, ethnicity, citizenship, and class. Recognition of the importance of reproductive work helps advance the project of developing intersectional political economy.
Bibliography:Winter, 2020
ISSN:0011-5266
1548-6192
DOI:10.1162/daed_a_01782