Three Masquerades: Essays on Equality, Work, and Human Rights
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Marilyn Waring probes the 'world behind the mask' in these three remarkable essays on women in politics, economics and work, and human rights. First, she pulls away the masks that women who are elected to parliamentary office are forced to wear. How do we women find ourselves trapped in the institution's games? How does that affect our ability to make progress on issues of primary importance to us? What does that do to our self-image? Can we even afford to be aware of this? The second essay continues Waring's powerful writing on economics and the concept of work. She updates the international situation described in her bestseller Counting for Nothing. Based on her project experience with the United Nations, she exposes the gap between rhetoric and consequence: you wash your pig: this is work; you wash your child: this is welfare... it has no value. The last essay unmasks the rhetoric of human rights. Waring shows how nation states exploit United Nations conventions, while also explaining the opportunities the conventions provide for political action.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0802080766
ISBN13:9780802080769
Release Date:February 1997
Publisher:University of Toronto Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Looking behind the mask
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Marilyn Waring is a political scientist who served three terms (1975-84) in Parliament in New Zealand and then turned to farming. This book follows her If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics by about eight years. Waring's essays on POLITICS and HUMAN RIGHTS in Three Masquerades are absorbing, but what blew me away was her essay on WORK, which begins with Waring taking buckets of manure to friends for Christmas, because she has nothing else to give. It proceeds rapidly to a summary of her earlier work on the UN System of National Accounts and the policy implications of its "production boundaries" (alone worth the price of the book), goes on to describe attempts by international labor and other organizations to expand the ways in which value is assigned to work, and finally (the unmasking) comes up against old-fashioned impermeable barriers of hypocricy and sexism. Three Masquerades includes four useful appendices: three international covenants concerning human rights, and an appendix on the structure of the United Nations.
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