Drucilla Barker, Edith Kuiper

Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Feminist economists have demonstrated that interrogating hierarchies based on gender, ethnicity, class and nation results in an economics that is biased and more faithful to empirical evidence than are mainstream accounts.This rigorous and comprehensive book examines many of the central philosophical questions and themes in feminist economics inclu

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134454488
• Artikelnr.: 41859522

Autorenporträt

Drucilla K. Barker is Professor of Economics and Women's Studies at Hollins University, Virginia, USA Edith Kuiper is researcher at the faculty of Economics and Econometrics, the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Sketching the Contours of a Feminist Philosophy of
Economics Part I. Re-reading History 2. 'Intro the Margin' 3. Hazel Kyrk
and the Ethics of Consumption 4. Feminist Fiction and Feminist Economics:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Efficiency 5. Beyond Markets: Wage Setting and
the Methodology of Feminist Political Economy Part II. Science Stories and
Feminist Economics 6. Some Implications of the Feminist Project in
Economics for Empirical Methodology 7. Foregrounding Practices: Feminist
Philosophy of Economics beyond Rhetoric and Realism 8. After Objectivism
versus 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. A Reading of Neoclassical Economics: Toward
an Erotic Economy of Sharing 13. The Anxious Identities we Inhabit
Post'isms and Economic Understandings Part IV. Beyond Social Contract:
Theorizing Agency and Relatedness 14. Holding Hands at Midnight: The
Paradox of Caring Labor 15. Integrating Vulnerability: On the Impact of
Caring on Economic Theory 16. An Evolutionary Approach to Feminist
Economics: Two Different Models of Caring 17. Domestic Labor and Gender
Identity: Are all Women Carers? Part V. Rethinking Categories 18.
Empowering Work? Bargaining Models Reconsidered 19. Economic Marginalia:
Postcolonial Readings of Unpaid Domestic Labor and Development 20. The
Difficulty of a Feminist Economics