| Description |
xvi, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Economics as social theory |
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Economics as social theory.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Sketching the contours of a feminist philosophy of economics / Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper -- Part I. Rereading history -- Into the margin! / Michèle A. Pujor -- Hazel Kyrk and the ethics of consumption / Susan Van Velzen -- Feminist fiction and feminist economics : Charlotte Perkins Gilman on efficiency / Irene Van Staveren -- Beyond markets : wage setting and the methodology of feminist political economy / Marilyn Power, Ellen Mutari, Deborah M. Figart -- Part II. Science stories and feminist economics -- Some implications of the feminist project in economics for empirical methodology / Joyce P. Jacobsen -- Foregrounding practices : feminist philosophy of economics beyond rhetoric and realism / Fabienne Peter -- After objectivism vs. relativism / Sandra Harding -- How did "the moral" get split from "the economic"? / Julie A. Nelson -- Part III. Constructing masculine/Western identity in economics -- The construction of masculine identity in Adam Smith's Theory of moral sentiments / Edith Kuiper -- Social classifications, social statistics, and the "facts" of "difference" in economics / Brian P. Cooper -- Reading neoclassical economics : toward an erotic economy of sharing / Susan F. Feiner -- The anxious identities we inhabit : post'isms and economic understandings / Nitasha Kaul -- Part IV. Beyond social contract : theorizing agency and relatedness -- "Holding hands at midnight" : the paradox of caring labor / Nancy Folbre -- Integrating vulnerability : on the impact of caring on economic theorizing / Maren A. Jochimsen -- An evolutionary approach to feminist economics : two different models of caring / Susan Hummelweit -- Domestic labor and gender identity : are all women carers? / Gillian J. Hewitson-- Part V. Rethinking categories -- Empowering work? Bargaining models reconsidered / S. Charusheela -- Economic marginalia : postcolonial readings of unpaid domestic labor and development / Cynthia A. Wood -- The difficulty of a feminist economics / Eiman Zein-Elabdin. |
| Summary |
With contributions from leading figures such as Diana Strassman, Julie Nelson & Sandra Harding, this volume describes, analyses & criticizes the main issues touched upon by feminist economics, including neoclassical economics, postcolonial theory, evolutionary economics, & critical realism and postmodernism. |
| Subject |
Feminist economics.
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Economics -- Philosophy.
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Women -- Economic conditions.
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Economics -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst00902168
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Feminist economics. (OCoLC)fst00922764
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Women -- Economic conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01176665
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Economische filosofie.
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Sekseverschillen.
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Wirtschaftstheorie.
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Feminismus.
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Feminismus. (DE-588)4222126-2
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Wirtschaftstheorie. (DE-588)4079351-5
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| Added Author |
Barker, Drucilla K., 1949-
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Kuiper, Edith, 1960-
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| ISBN |
0415283876 (hbk.) |
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9780415283878 (hbk.) |
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0415283884 (pbk.) |
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9780415283885 (pbk.) |
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9780203422694 |
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0203422694 |
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