Toward a feminist philosophy of economics /
edited by Drucilla K. Barker & Edith Kuiper.
- xvi, 349 p.
- Economics as social theory .
- Economics as social theory. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: sketching the contours of a feminist philosophy of economics / Rereading history -- Into the margin! / Hazel Kyrk and the ethics of consumption / Feminist fiction and feminist economics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman on efficiency / Beyond markets: wage setting and the methodology of feminist political economy / Science stories and feminist economics -- Some implications of the feminist project in economics for empirical methodology / Foregrounding practices: feminist philosophy of economics beyond rhetoric and realism / After objectivism vs. relativism / How did "the moral" get split from "the economic"? / Constructing masculine/Western identity in economics -- The construction of masculine identity in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments / Social classifications, social statistics, and the "facts" of "difference" in economics / Reading neoclassical economics: toward an erotic economy of sharing / The anxious identities we inhabit: post'isms and economic understandings / Beyond social contract: theorizing agency and relatedness -- "Holding Hands at Midnight": the paradox of caring labor / Integrating vulnerability: on the impact of caring on economic theorizing / An evolutionary approach to feminist economics: two different models of caring / Domestic labor and gender identity: are all women carers? / Rethinking categories -- Empowering work? Bargaining models reconsidered / Economic marginalia: postcolonial readings of unpaid domestic labor and development / The difficulty of a feminist economics / Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper -- Michele A. Pujol -- Susan van Velzen -- Irene van Staveren -- Marilyn Power, Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart -- Joyce P. Jacobsen -- Fabienne Peter -- Sandra Harding -- Julie A. Nelson -- Edith Kuiper -- Brian P. Cooper -- Susan F. Feiner -- Nitasha Kaul -- Nancy Folbre -- Maren A. Jochimsen -- Susan Himmelweit -- Gillian J. Hewitson -- S. Charusheela -- Cynthia A. Wood -- Eiman Zein-Elabdin. 1. Pt. I. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. II. 6. 7. 8. 9. Pt. III. 10. 11. 12. 13. Pt. IV. 14. 15. 16. 17. Pt. V. 18. 19. 20.
"With contributions from such leading figures as Nancy Folbre, Julie Nelson and Sandra Harding, Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics looks set to become the book on feminist economics for some time to come. It will be greatly appreciated by all those interested in gender studies, economic methodology, and social theory."--BOOK JACKET.