Austerity has dominated the policy agenda in the past decade.
Although it appeared to end with the COVID-19 pandemic, a return to
harsh cutbacks in the future cannot be ruled out. In this incisive
analysis, Diane Perrons shows that while austerity policies have
devastating effects on people's lives, their gendered dynamics are
particularly conspicuous: budget cuts have been overwhelmingly
aimed at services used by women. She shows how the gender aspects
of this economic and social catastrophe intersected with a range of
other factors, making the experience of austerity very different
for different groups - and highly unjust. Not only that, it
undermined responses to COVID-19. She finishes by critiquing the
justifications for austerity policies and asks whether there are
compelling alternatives that can re-invigorate economies and
societies after the pandemic, and avoid a return to austerity. This
compelling book will be essential reading for activists,
policymakers and students of feminist political economy everywhere.
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