Book Reviews. Ewig, Christina (2010) Second-Wave Neoliberalism, Gender, Race and Health Sector Reform in Peru, The Pennsylvania State University Press

CONSTANZA TABBUSH

BULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH

PERGAMON

Lugar: Oxford; Año: 2012 vol. 31 p. 354 - 355

0261-3050

Second-Wave Neoliberalism, Gender, Race and Health Sector Reform in Peru urges scholars to widen feminist studies of neoliberalism beyond structural adjustment to engage with the gender outcomes of the second-wave social policy reforms of the 1990s. These more complex transformations applied market principles to state social policies, and constituted one of the responses of international financial institutions to the critiques of the one-size-fits-all approach of the Washington Consensus. The text draws inspiration from Nancy Fraser?s notion of justice and considers the principles of redistribution and recognition to conceptualise gender equity in healthcare. Through this assessment, Ewigs intersectional analysis outlines the contours and changing nature of the neoliberal project in Peru, the gender, race and class hierarchies that sustained it, and, more importantly, its uses and abuses of feminist knowledge.