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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825380703321

Titolo

Toward a feminist philosophy of economics / / edited by Drucilla K. Barker and Edith Kuiper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

0-429-23142-3

1-134-45448-1

1-280-02240-X

0-203-42269-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Collana

Economics as social theory

Altri autori (Persone)

BarkerDrucilla K. <1949->

KuiperEdith <1960->

Disciplina

330/.082

Soggetti

Feminist economics

Economics - Philosophy

Women - Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; 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 realismAfter 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

Sommario/riassunto

This book edited by two of the most respected figures in feminist



economics is a welcome collection that charts and critically analyses how other movements have influenced the development of feminist economics as a distinct discipline.