Author profile: V. Spike Peterson

Global Householding: the Good, the Bad, and the Uncomfortable

V. Spike Peterson • Mar 30 2010 • Articles

Households are an enduring feature of human history. They are the building blocks of social formations in every era and at all scales: from small communities to the global economy. Feminists have produced an extensive body of research on households. But like domestic labor within households, this work rarely appears in mainstream accounts of economics, politics, or international relations (IR).