Gender Work

Robin Truth Goodman is Professor in the Department of English at Florida State University, USA. Her publications include Infertilities: Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies (2001); Strange Love: Or, How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market (2002; with Kenneth J. Saltman); World, Class, Women: Global Literature, Education and Feminism (2004); Policing Narratives and the State of Terror (2009); Feminist Theory in Pursuit of the Public: Women and the "Re-Privatization" of Labor (2010); and Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory (2015).

"This book marks a path-breaking turn in feminist theory, where feminism illuminates the transfigured conditions of contemporary global society under neoliberalism. Goodman brilliantly restores the primacy of labor and class to feminist theory, political analysis, and social agency alike. Her riveting analyses recasts culture and everyday life as they reframe the capital flows of globalization. What results is extraordinary: an urgent, timely, and truly global feminist theory of how women's work changes the world." - Jennifer Wicke, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Virginia, USA "Why are women's labor, time, and sociality more and more central to the workings of capitalism? Goodman's tour de force analysis of feminist and Marxian writings provides a variety of persuasive answers. Her book will be indispensable to a wide range of readers who want the most up-to-date thinking on this topic." - Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, USA

• 1. The Gender of Working Time: Revisiting Feminist/Marxist Debates2. Julia Kristeva's Murders: Neoliberalism and the Labor of the Symbolic3. Feminist Theory's Itinerant Legacy: From Language Feminism to Labor Feminism4. Girls in School: The 'Girls' School' Genre at the New Frontier5. Gender Work: Feminism After Neoliberalism