Policy Press Austerity, Women and the Role of the State: Lived Experiences of the Crisis (Gender and Sociology)

Using interviews with women from diverse backgrounds, Dabrowski makes an invaluable contribution to the debates around the gendered politics of austerity in the UK. Exploring the symbiotic relationship between the state’s legitimization of austerity and women’s everyday experiences, she reveals how unjust policies are produced, how alternatives are silenced and highlights the different ways in which women are used or blamed. By understanding austerity as more than simply an economic project, this book fills important gaps in existing knowledge on state, gender and class relations in the context of UK austerity. Austerity, Women and the Role of the State is shortlisted for the 2021 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Review ... an essential read for academics, activists, and those who have been subjected to the violence of austerity. The Sociological Review In the neoliberal capitalist world of ours, the crisis which arrived with COVID‐19 pandemic has highlighted the 'austerity issue'. (This book) compels us to rethink the 'state' narrative of why we 'need' austerity programmes. British Journal of International Relations About the Author Vicki Dabrowski is Associate Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York. Her research interests include gender, class inequality and the role of the state.