Women and children together and apart

Bibliographic Data

ID3040930
AuthorsJan Newberry (0000-0002-8462-2231, corresponding author), Rachel Rosen (0000-0003-3949-3060)
Year2020
Volume2020
Issue86
Pages112-120
Publication date2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFocaal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0920-1297 • E-ISSN: 1558-5263
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/fcl.2020.860109
OpenAlexW3009631338
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited42

In what ways, and to what effects, are proliferating temporalities of appropriation in financialized capitalism transforming or transformed by those of social reproductive labor? More specifically, how are woman-child relations affected when social reproduction becomes a site of immediate, not just indirect, capital accumulation through relations of debt? To answer these questions, we take up species-being as the laborrelationthat anchors socially necessary labor and links women and children by attending to three temporal modalities of accumulation via social reproductive labor: scholarization, (re)familization, and debt servicing. We argue that differentiated tempos in the appropriation of surplus value, operating to "fix" contradictions between capital's short- and long-term interests, are critical sources of tension between women and children in the meeting of needs. Producing and mapping divergent rhythms of appropriation on to different groups may both link diverse women and children, and put their interests at odds

Appropriation · Capitalism · Debt · Economics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Reproduction · Social capital · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Surplus value · Temporalities · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Finance

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