LEADER 04649nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910457020003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-42639-7 010 $a9786612426391 010 $a0-226-24208-0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226242088 035 $a(CKB)2550000000002340 035 $a(EBL)471815 035 $a(OCoLC)527705784 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000335155 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11241220 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000335155 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10290048 035 $a(PQKB)11344015 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC471815 035 $a(DE-B1597)524198 035 $a(OCoLC)1135569261 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226242088 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL471815 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10349944 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL242639 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000002340 100 $a19921109d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aBeyond economic man$b[electronic resource] $efeminist theory and economics /$fedited by Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1993 215 $a1 online resource (188 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-24201-3 311 $a0-226-24200-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: The Social Construction of Economics and the Social Construction of Gender --$t1. The Study of Choice or the Study of Provisioning? Gender and the Definition of Economics --$t2. The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions --$t3. Not a Free Market: The Rhetoric of Disciplinary Authority in Economics --$t4. Some Consequences of a Conjective Economics --$t5. Socialism, Feminist and Scientific --$t6. Public or Private? Institutional Economics and Feminism --$tWhat Should Mainstream Economists Learn from Feminist Theory? --$tRace, Deconstruction, and the Emergent Agenda of Feminist Economic Theory --$tFeminist Theory, Women's Experience, and Economics --$tEconomics for Whom? --$tBiographies of the Contributors --$tIndex 330 $aThis is the first book to examine the central tenets of economics from a feminist point of view. In these original essays, the authors suggest that the discipline of economics could be improved by freeing itself from masculine biases. Beyond Economic Man raises questions about the discipline not because economics is too objective but because it is not objective enough. The contributors-nine economists, a sociologist, and a philosopher-discuss the extent to which gender has influenced both the range of subjects economists have studied and the way in which scholars have conducted their studies. They investigate, for example, how masculine concerns underlie economists' concentration on market as opposed to household activities and their emphasis on individual choice to the exclusion of social constraints on choice. This focus on masculine interests, the contributors contend, has biased the definition and boundaries of the discipline, its central assumptions, and its preferred rhetoric and methods. However, the aim of this book is not to reject current economic practices, but to broaden them, permitting a fuller understanding of economic phenomena. These essays examine current economic practices in the light of a feminist understanding of gender differences as socially constructed rather than based on essential male and female characteristics. The authors use this concept of gender, along with feminist readings of rhetoric and the history of science, as well as postmodernist theory and personal experience as economists, to analyze the boundaries, assumptions, and methods of neoclassical, socialist, and institutionalist economics. The contributors are Rebecca M. Blank, Paula England, Marianne A. Ferber, Nancy Folbre, Ann L. Jennings, Helen E. Longino, Donald N. McCloskey, Julie A. Nelson, Robert M. Solow, Diana Strassmann, and Rhonda M. Williams. 606 $aFeminist theory$xEconomic aspects 606 $aEconomics 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFeminist theory$xEconomic aspects. 615 0$aEconomics. 676 $a330.01 676 $a330.082 676 $a330/.082 701 $aFerber$b Marianne A.$f1923-$0885997 701 $aNelson$b Julie A.$f1956-$0252496 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457020003321 996 $aBeyond economic man$92014836 997 $aUNINA