Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Putting Feminist Theory to Work -- 2 Spatialising the Subject of Feminism -- 3 From Registered Nurse to Registered Nanny -- 4 Liberalism, Universalisms and Democratic Feminist Politics -- 5 Working at the Borders of Liberalism -- 6 Gleaning the Home -- 7 Trafficking across Borders -- 8 Song Flies Home -- References -- Index
'Working Feminism' looks at key concepts and debates within feminist theory and puts them to work concretely in relation to the real problems faced by Filipina domestic workers and Asian youth in Canada. Geraldine Pratt draws to the fore the metaphorical and concrete geographies that lie implicit and underdeveloped within much feminist theory and suggests that a geographical imagination offers a means of reframing debates beyond polarized theoretical and political positions
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