TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barker,Drucilla K.
AU  - Kuiper,Edith
TI  - Toward a feminist philosophy of economics
T2  - Economics as social theory
SN  - 0415283876
AV  - HQ1381 .B37 2003
U1  - 330.082 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Feminist economics
KW  - Economics
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Women
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Introduction: sketching the contours of a feminist philosophy of economics; Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper --; Pt. I; Rereading history --; 2; Into the margin!; Michele A. Pujol --; 3; Hazel Kyrk and the ethics of consumption; Susan van Velzen --; 4; Feminist fiction and feminist economics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman on efficiency; Irene van Staveren --; 5; Beyond markets: wage setting and the methodology of feminist political economy; Marilyn Power, Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart --; Pt. II; Science stories and feminist economics --; 6; Some implications of the feminist project in economics for empirical methodology; Joyce P. Jacobsen --; 7; Foregrounding practices: feminist philosophy of economics beyond rhetoric and realism; Fabienne Peter --; 8; After objectivism vs. relativism; Sandra Harding --; 9; How did "the moral" get split from "the economic"?; Julie A. Nelson --; Pt. III; Constructing masculine/Western identity in economics --; 10; The construction of masculine identity in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments; Edith Kuiper --; 11; Social classifications, social statistics, and the "facts" of "difference" in economics; Brian P. Cooper --; 12; Reading neoclassical economics: toward an erotic economy of sharing; Susan F. Feiner --; 13; The anxious identities we inhabit: post'isms and economic understandings; Nitasha Kaul --; Pt. IV; Beyond social contract: theorizing agency and relatedness --; 14; "Holding Hands at Midnight": the paradox of caring labor; Nancy Folbre --; 15; Integrating vulnerability: on the impact of caring on economic theorizing; Maren A. Jochimsen --; 16; An evolutionary approach to feminist economics: two different models of caring; Susan Himmelweit --; 17; Domestic labor and gender identity: are all women carers?; Gillian J. Hewitson --; Pt. V; Rethinking categories --; 18; Empowering work? Bargaining models reconsidered; S. Charusheela --; 19; Economic marginalia: postcolonial readings of unpaid domestic labor and development; Cynthia A. Wood --; 20; The difficulty of a feminist economics; Eiman Zein-Elabdin
N2  - "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
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