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Liberating Economics
Liberating Economics draws on central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles of families, caring labor, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty, the feminization of labor, and the consequences of globalization. Barker and Feiner consistently recognize the importance of social location -- gender, race, class, sexual identity, and nationality -- in economic processes shaping the home, paid employment, market relations, and the global economy. Throughout they connect women's economic status in the industrialized nations to the economic circumstances surrounding women in the global South. Rooted in the two disciplines, this book draws on the rich tradition of interdisciplinary work in feminist social science scholarship to construct a parallel between the notions that the "personal is political" and "the personal is economic." Drucilla K. Barker is Professor of Economics and Women's Studies, Hollins University. Susan F. Feiner is Associate Professor of Economics and Women's Studies, University of Southern Maine.
Feminist Economics and the World Bank
The past decade has witnessed a paradigm shift at the World Bank from a focus on structural adjustment to a focus on poverty reduction. As evidenced by the Bank’s 2001 report, Engendering Development: Through Rights, Resource and Voice, an increased attention to gender issues has been an important part of this process. This book brings together a range of responses from feminist economists and other social researchers on the issues raised in this report. With contributions from highly esteemed scholars such as Eudine Barriteau, Diane Elson, Gale Summerfield, and Zafiris Tzannatos, this anthology critically examines the relationships between gender, growth, development, and the World Bank b...
Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics
This book edited by two of the most respected figures in feminist economics is a welcome collection that charts and critically analyses how other movements have influenced the development of feminist economics as a distinct discipline.
Liberating Economics, Second Edition
In this brand-new critical analysis of economics, Barker, Bergeron, and Feiner provide a feminist understanding of the economic processes that shape households, labor markets, globalization, and human well-being to reveal the crucial role that gender plays in the economy today. With all new and updated chapters, the second edition of Liberating Economics examines recent trends in inequality, global indebtedness, crises of care, labor precarity, and climate change. Taking an interdisciplinary and intersectional feminist approach, the new edition places even more emphasis on the ways that gender, race, class, sexuality, and nationality shape the economy. It also highlights the centrality of so...
Feminist Economics
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Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics
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.
Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life
The excellent list of themes and chapters in this volume reflects the maturity reached by feminist economics in its different dimensions. Based on the notion of social provisioning for all as the basic objective of economics, they represent a challenge to conventional economic thought and they show the importance of understanding theory, institutions, empirical work, and policy from a gender perspective. The global perspective provided through themes and authors is a very useful contribution to the literature. Lourdes Bener'a, Cornell University, US Standard economics has a narrow and distorted vision of what the economy is, and how it works. Gender scholars are on the forefront of developin...
The Political Economy of Families, Work and Globalization
An interdisciplinary reader of scholarship relevant to feminist political economy, the selections in this bookcover such themes as: feminism and the history of economic thought, the function and consequences of the gender division of labor in the household, the significance of unpaid and caring labor, women's position in paid labor, the feminization of poverty and welfare state policies, gender and the global economy, and gender in the informal sector. These selections will provide a sophisticated context for understanding the major issues in feminist economics. The book is unique in three distinct ways. First, it collects essays from several disciplinary perspectives including feminist economics, sociology, history, philosophy, and political science. Second, it addresses issues from both the industrialized countries and the global South. Third, it covers the major themes in feminist economics ranging from discussions of the family, welfare policies, waged work, caring labor, and globalization. The comprehensive survey provided by this volume makes it quite different from any other existing reader or edited volume
Imagining Economics Otherwise
The result of a multifaceted investigation into the nature of knowledge produced by economics, this book re-examines certain understood ways of thinking about economics as a discipline, especially in relation to questions of identity and difference.
