Publication Date
2019
Journal or Book Title
Daedalus
Abstract
This essay offers a new way of visualizing structures of collective power based on gender, emphasizing the role of social institutions in shaping women's ability to bargain over the distribution of the gains from cooperation with men. It makes the case for an interdisciplinary conceptualization of bargaining power that emphasizes the role of imperfect information and inefficient outcomes, and explains important parallels between structures of collective power based on gender, age, and sexuality, and those based on other dimensions of socially assigned group membership such as race, ethnicity, citizenship, and class. Recognition of the importance of reproductive work helps advance the project of developing intersectional political economy.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1162/DAED_a_01782
Pages
198-212
Volume
149
Issue
1
License
UMass Amherst Open Access Policy
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Folbre, Nancy, "Cooperation & Conflict in the Patriarchal Labyrinth" (2019). Daedalus. 342.
https://doi.org/10.1162/DAED_a_01782