Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization. By Drucilla K. Barker and Susan F. Feiner. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2004. 193 pp. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Work for women outside of the home was once thought to be the basis of women's equality and liberation. And it still may be. But the quality of that work is certainly of great importance, too. How have women fared with respect to the quality of the work that they have done in the past century? What consequences, if any, follow from globalization for the lives of female workers around the world? Is a distinctly feminist model of economics necessary for understanding women's lives or will classical economic models suffice? Drucilla Barker and Susan Feiner pursue all three of these questions very seriously and with considerable success in Liberating Economics.