Feminist Economics Today

by Ferber, Marianne A.

• ISBN13: 9780226242064
• ISBN10: 0226242064
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

The 1993 publication of Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson'sBeyond Economic Manwas a landmark in both feminist scholarship and the discipline of economics, and it quickly became a handbook for those seeking to explore the emerging connections between the two. A decade later, this book looks back at the progress of feminist economics and forward to its future, offering both a thorough overview of feminist economic thought and a collection of new, high-quality work from the field's leading scholars.

Author Biography

Marianne A. Ferber is a professor emerita of economics and women's studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Julie A. Nelson is a senior research associate at the Global Development and Environment Institute of Tufts University and the author of Feminism, Objectivity, and Economics. Both are associate editors of the journal Feminist Economics.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction: Beyond Economic Man, Ten Years Later	1	(32)
... Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson
1. Separative and Soluble Selves: Dichotomous Thinking in Economics	33	(28)
... Paula England
2. Contracting for Care	61	(20)
... Paula England and Nancy Folbre
3. Separative and Soluble Firms: Androcentric Bias and Business Ethics	81	(20)
... Julie A. Nelson
4. Feminist Theory and Racial Economic Inequality	101	(14)
... Lisa Saunders and William Danty Jr.
5. Economic Rationality and Globalization: A Feminist Perspective	115	(20)
... Lourdes Benerla
6. The Application of Mainstream Economics Constructs to Education: A Feminist Analysis	135	(22)
... Myra H. St rober
7. Economics, Policy Analysis, and Feminism	157	(18)
... Rebecca M. Blank and Cordelia W. Reimers
8. Feminism, Postcolonial Thought, and Economics	175	(18)
... S. Charusheela and Eiman Zein-Elabdin
Contributors	193	(4)
Index	197