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Out of the Margin: Feminist Perspectives on Economics
by Edith Kuiper, Jolande Sap, Susan Feiner, Notburga Ott, Zafiris Tzannatos. 306 pgs.

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This book is the first volume to consider feminist concerns across the entire domain of economics.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Herstory of Economics

1: Into the Margin!

2: A Heretical View of Economic Growth and Income Distribution

3: Varieties of Deprivation

Part II: Economic Theory

4: Human Capital and the Gender Earnings Gap

5: Fertility and Division of Work in the Family

6: Toward a Feminist, Post-Keynesian Theory of Investment

7: Economic Theory and Feminist Theory

Part III: Interpreting Economics

8: The Economist as Storyteller

9: Reading Neoclassical Economics

10: Feminist Interpretative Economics

Part IV: Economic Measurement

11: The Empirical Challenges of Feminist Economics

12: Measuring Equality in Opportunity 2000

13: Toward a Feminist Econometrics

14: Economic Measurement

Part V: Empowerment of Women

15: The Use and Abuse of Neoclassical Theory in the Political Arena

16: Women and Children Last

17: Gender, Property, and Land Rights

18: The Empowerment of Women

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In Justice: Women and Global Economics
by Ann-Cathrin Jarl. 177 pgs.

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Part One-- 1: Market Economics and Feminist Economics

Market Economics

2: Feminist Critique of Objectivity and Empiricism in Economic Theory

3: Equality, Rights, Power, and Basic Human Needs in Feminist Development Economics

Part Two-- 4: Liberation Theology and Feminism

5: Feminist Ethics and Economics

6: A Feminist Approach to Justice

Part Three-- 7: Basic Human Needs: A Criterion for Justice

8: A Feminist Theory of Economic Justice

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Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics
by Drucilla K. Barker, Edith Kuiper. 352 pgs.

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Feminist economists have demonstrated that questioning implicit assumptions about gender results in an economics that is less biased and more faithful to empirical evidence than are mainstream accounts. This rigorous and comprehensive book describes, analyzes and criticizes all of the main issues of feminist economics including: neoclassical economics, post-colonial theory and evolutionary economics.

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Part I: Rereading History

2: Into the Margin!

3: Hazel Kyrk and the Ethics of Consumption

4: Feminist Fiction and Feminist Economics

5: Beyond Markets

Part II: Science Stories and Feminist Economics

6: Some Implications of the Feminist Project in Economics for Empirical Methodology

7: Foregrounding Practices

8: After Objectivism Vs. Relativism

9: How Did “The Moral” Get Split from “The Economic”?

Part III: Constructing Masculine/Western Identity in Economics

10: The Construction of Masculine Identity in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments

11: Social Classifications, Social Statistics, and the “Facts” of “Difference” in Economics

12: Reading Neoclassical Economics

13: The Anxious Identities We Inhabit

Part IV: Beyond Social Contract

14: Holding Hands at Midnight

15: Integrating Vulnerability

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16: An Evolutionary Approach to Feminist Economics

17: Domestic Labor and Gender Identity

Part V: Rethinking Categories

18: Empowering Work?

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19: Economic Marginalia

20: The Difficulty of a Feminist Economics

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Engendering Economics: Conversations with Women Economists in the United States
by Paulette I. Olson, Zohreh Emami. 271 pgs.

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Between 1950 and 1975, the percentage of women receiving economic doctorates in the US sunk to an all time low of less than five per cent. This book consists of a series of interviews with the few who did attain this status during that period.

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1: Ingrid Hahne Rima

2: Marianne Abeles Ferber

3: Barbara Berman Bergmann

4: Alice Mitchell Rivlin

5: Suzanne Wiggins Helburn

6: Anne Mayhew

7: Myra Hoffenberg Strober

8: Barbara Ann Posey Jones

9: Lois Banfill Shaw

10: Margaret Constance Simms

11: Lourdes BenerÍa

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What Is Feminist Economics All About?, in Challenge
by Julie Nelson. 5 pgs.

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Under the Margins: Feminist Economists Look at Gender and Poverty, in Dollars & Sense
by Randy Albelda. 6 pgs.

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The Feminist Challenge to Economics, in Challenge
by Ann Mari May. 7 pgs.

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