Prabha Kotiswaran is Professor of Law and Social Justice at King's College London. Her main research areas include criminal law, transnational criminal law, feminist legal studies, and the sociology of law. She has authored and edited numerous books and journal articles. Select books include Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labour: Sex Work and the Law in India (Princeton, 2011) and Governance Feminism: An Introduction (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). Her research has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, Journal of Law and Society, and Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School. She was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Law in 2014. She was most recently Principal Investigator for an EU-funded consolidated grant, the Laws of Social Reproduction project.

What makes Wages for Housework truly exceptional is that it takes women's lived experiences seriously, listening closely to how women themselves understand cash transfers, autonomy, dignity, labour, and citizenship. At a moment when feminist politics globally is struggling to articulate alternatives to right-wing governance, this book offers a bold, empirically grounded, and theoretically rigorous vision of what a feminist care manifesto might look like. It is an indispensable resource for scholars of feminism, development, law, political science, and economics and vital for anyone seeking to imagine a more just social contract centred on care, dignity, and life-making labour.

Prabha Kotiswaran is Professor of Law and Social Justice at King's College London. Her main research areas include criminal law, transnational criminal law, feminist legal studies, and the sociology of law. She has authored and edited numerous books and journal articles. Select books include Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labour: Sex Work and the Law in India (Princeton, 2011) and Governance Feminism: An Introduction (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). Her research has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, Journal of Law and Society, and Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School. She was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Law in 2014. She was most recently Principal Investigator for an EU-funded consolidated grant, the Laws of Social Reproduction project.

What makes Wages for Housework truly exceptional is that it takes women's lived experiences seriously, listening closely to how women themselves understand cash transfers, autonomy, dignity, labour, and citizenship. At a moment when feminist politics globally is struggling to articulate alternatives to right-wing governance, this book offers a bold, empirically grounded, and theoretically rigorous vision of what a feminist care manifesto might look like. It is an indispensable resource for scholars of feminism, development, law, political science, and economics and vital for anyone seeking to imagine a more just social contract centred on care, dignity, and life-making labour.