Feminism after measure

Bibliographic Data

ID4367160
AuthorsL Adkins (0000-0001-7003-0406, Goldsmiths University of London, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume10
Issue3
Pages323-339
Publication date2009-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700109343255
OpenAlexW2131712020
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited36

This article engages the crisis of measure currently being articulated within social and cultural theory and the associated claim that this crisis should compel an embrace of methods which seek to know the heterogeneous, the multiple, the complex and the vague. Taking the rise of immaterial forms of labour and value as paradigmatic of the crisis of measure, it questions the use of the figure of a domestically labouring woman who lacks ownership of her labour to illuminate this crisis, as well as the structural equivalence currently being forced between 'women's work' (especially the work of social reproduction) and productive activities. It does so with reference to the changing relationship between women and social reproduction, a changing relationship which suggests that at the heart of the crisis of measure is a restructuring of time. This article therefore adds fuel to the view that the relations of temporality are now a key ground for feminist theory

Economics · Epistemology · Feminism · Political science · Positive economics · Reproduction · Restructuring · Social capital · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Temporality · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Labor Movements and Unions · Law

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