Feminist Economics, (4 Volume Set)

Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Economics. It is a four-volume collection of historical and contemporary work in the flourishing field of feminist economics, an innovative and dynamic area of scholarship that broadens the scope of economic inquiry and allows a richer and more complex view of the ways in which economies function. The first two volumes of the collection consist of work done before the founding of the International Association for Feminist Economics in 1991 and are organized historically. The final two volumes consist of cutting-edge contemporary work in feminist economics and are organized thematically.

This new Routledge title, edited by two leading scholars, is a four-volume collection of canonical and the very best cutting-edge work in feminist economics, an innovative and dynamic area of scholarship that has broadened the scope of economic inquiry and has allowed a richer and more complex understanding of the ways in which economies function.

Volume I (‘Early Conversations, 1800–1960’) gathers foundational work produced before the professionalization and specialization of the social sciences by writers who were variously categorized as journalists, reformers, and—occasionally—as economists. Their writing provides important historical background on subjects such as household production, women’s participations in paid labour, and gender equality, subjects that remain central to feminist economics today.

Volume II (‘Households, Labour, and Paid Work’) brings together the best work by professional economists examining various aspects of women’s labour both within and outside the domestic sphere. Topics include reproductive labour, caring labour, women’s labour force participation, the gender wage gap, occupational segregation, and the economics of the family.

Volume III (‘Engendering Development and Economic Well-Being’) assembles work with a specifically international or global perspective. Among the topics covered are: women and development; the gendered effects of structural adjustment; property rights; economic transformation; and measures of economic well-being.

The final volume in the collection (‘Epistemological and Methodological Considerations’) focuses on a feminist rethinking of economics. Volume IV collects the best scholarship on methodology, the history of economics, and postmodern and postcolonial critiques of both feminist and conventional economics.

Fully indexed and with a comprehensive introduction to each volume newly written by the editors, and an invited introduction to the final volume written by Gillian Hewitson, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Feminist Economics is an essential reference work. It is destined to be valued by scholars and students of economics—as well as those working in allied disciplines such as women’s and gender studies—as a vital research resource.

Volume I : Early Conversations, 1800–1960

Part 1 : Economic Literacy
Chapter 1 : Jane Marcet, Conversations on Political Economy; in which The Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained, 5th revised and enlarged edn : [1824]
Chapter 2 : Harriet Martineau, Weal and Woe in Garveloch : A Tale, from Illustrations of Political Economy, in Nine Volumes, 2nd edn.
Chapter 3 : Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna [Charlotte Elizabeth pseud.] ‘The Little Pin-Headers’, The Wrongs of Woman

Part 2 : On Gender Equality, The Family and The Economy
Chapter 4 : William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler, Introductory Letter to Mrs Wheeler, from Appeal of One Half The Human Race, Women, Against The Pretensions of The OTher Half, Men to Retain Them in Political and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery, in Reply to a Paragraph of Mr Mill’s Celebrated ‘Article On Government’
Chapter 5 : Letter VIII : On The Condition of Women in The United States’, in Elizabeth Ann Bartlett (ed.), Sarah Grimké : Letters on The Equality of The Sexes and OTher Essays [
Chapter 6 : The Enfranchisement of Women’, Westminster Review, 1851
Chapter 7 : Woman in The Future’, Woman in The Past, Present & Future, 2nd edn : (1883) (translation of ‘Die Frau und der Sozialismus’ by H : B : Adams WalTher, reprinted with an introduction by Moira Donald
Chapter 8 : The Family’ and ‘The Monogamous Family’, The Origin of The Family, Private Property and The State [1884]
Chapter 9 : Mary Church Terrell, The Progress of Colored Women, An Address Delivered Before The National American Women’s Suffrage Association at The Columbia Theater, Washington D.C : 18 February
Chapter 10 : Women and Economics, A Study of The Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution (Small, Maynard & Co., 1898), ch : II, reprinted in Sheryl L : Meyering (ed.), Women and Economics
Chapter 11 : Introduction’, Woman and Labour
Chapter 12 : The Economic Foundations of The Women’s Movement

Part 3 : On Household Production and Consumption
Chapter 13 : The Wife’s Contribution to Family Income’, The Economic Journal, 1894
Chapter 14 : The Nature and Scope of a Study of Consumption’, A Theory of Consumption
Chapter 15 : What is Household Production?’, Economics of Household Production

Part 4 : On Women’s Education, Work and Wages
Chapter 16 : Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Women and Work (Bosworth and Harrison, 1857), reprinted in Candida Ann Lacey (ed.), Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and The Langham Place Group
Chapter 17 : Death or Dishonor’ (excerpt), The College, The Market, and The Courts; or Women’s Relation to Education, Labor, and The Law
Chapter 18 : The Education and Employment of Women
Chapter 19 : The Collection and Utilisation of Official Statistics Bearing on The Extent and Effects of The Industrial Employment of Women’, Journal of The Royal Statistical Society, 1898
Chapter 20 : The Remuneration of Women’s Services’, The Economic Journal, 1917

Part 5 : Feminist Economic History
Chapter 21 : The Establishment of The Factory System’, Women in Industry : A Study in American Economic History
Chapter 22 : Conclusion’, Working Life of Women in The Seventeenth Century (Cass, 1919), reprinted by Routledge, 1982
Chapter 23 : Conclusion’, Women Workers and The Industrial Revolution 1750–1850 [1930]

Part 6 : Feminist Economic Proposals or Change
Chapter 24 : Why I Mention Women’, Union Ouvriére (Prévot, 1843), translation with introduction by Beverly Livingston, The Workers’ Union, Urbana and London
Chapter 25 : Women’s Work and The Organization of Trade Unions’, Die Gleichheit, 1 Nov : 1893, reprinted in Philip Foner (ed.), Clara Zetkin : Selected Writings
Chapter 26 : Equal Pay for Equal Work’, The Economic Journal, 1918
Chapter 27 : The Wages of Men and Women : Should They be Equal?
Chapter 28 : Long Term Goals : Summary and Conclusions’ [1956], Women’s Two Roles, 2nd edn.

Volume II : Households, LaboUr, and Paid Work

Part 7 : Household Labour and Reproductive Labour
Chapter 29 : Domestic Labour and Capital’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1977
Chapter 30 : Economic Measurement of Non-market Household Activities : Is it Useful and Feasible?’, International Labour Review, 1990
Chapter 31 : Counting Outputs, Capital Inputs and Caring Labor : Estimating Gross Household Product’, Feminist Economics, 1996
Chapter 32 : Is it Wrong to Pay For Housework?’, Hypatia, 2002

Part 8 : Caring Labour
Chapter 33 : The Discovery of "Unpaid Work" : The Social Consequences of The Expansion of "Work"’, Feminist Economics, 1995
Chapter 34 : Making The Hidden Visible : The Importance of Caring Activities and Their Principles for any Economy’, Ecological Economics, 1997
Chapter 35 : For Love or Money—Or Both?’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2000
Chapter 36 : Warm Hands in Cold Age : On The Need of a New World Order of Care’, Feminist Economics, 2005

Part 9 : Economics of The Family
Chapter 37 : Class Struggle and The Persistence of The Working-Class Family’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1977
Chapter 38 : The Family as The Locus of Gender, Class, and Political Struggle : The Example of Housework’, Signs, 1981
Chapter 39 : Taking its Toll : The Influence of Paid and Unpaid Work on Women’s Well-Being’, Feminist Economics, 2005
Chapter 40 : "Bargaining" and Gender Relations : Within and Beyond The Household’, Feminist Economics, 1997

Part 10 : Discrimination, Occupational Segregation, and The Wage Gap
Chapter 41 : Female Labor Force Participation : The Origin of Black and White Differences, 1870 and 1880’, The Journal of Economic History, 1977
Chapter 42 : Wives’ Labor Force Behavior and Family Consumption Patterns’, The American Economic Review, 1977
Chapter 43 : Labor Market Participation of Young Married Women : Causes and Effects’, Journal of Marriage and The Family, 1982
Chapter 44 : Trends In Earnings Differentials By Gender, 1971–1981’, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 1988
Chapter 45 : Does The Market for Women’s Labor Need Fixing?’, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1989
Chapter 46 : The Wage Effects of Sexual Orientation Discrimination’, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 1995
Chapter 47 : Women, Income, and Poverty : There’s a Family Connection, in Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits : Women’s Work, Women’s Poverty
Chapter 48 : National Working-Time Regimes and Equal Opportunities’, Feminist Economics, 1998
Chapter 49 : NeiTher MoThers nor Breadwinners : African-American Women’s Exclusion from US Minimum Wage Policies, 1912–38’, Feminist Economics, 2002

Volume III : Engendering Development and Economic Well-Being

Part 11 : Women and Development
Chapter 50 : Ester Boserup, ‘Male and Female Farming Systems’, in Women’s Role in Economic Development
Chapter 51 : Accumulation, Reproduction, and Women’s Role in Economic Development : Boserup Revisited’, Signs, 1981
Chapter 52 : Gender and Cooperative Conflicts’, in Irene Tinker (ed.), Persistent Inequalities : Women and World Development
Chapter 53 : The Gender and Environment Debate : Lessons from India’, Feminist Studies, 1992
Chapter 54 : The Gender Asset Gap : Land in Latin America’, World Development, 2003

Part 12 : Feminization of The Labor Force, Structural Adjustment, and Economic Transformation
Chapter 55 : From Survival Strategies to Transformation Strategies : Women’s Needs & Structural Adjustment’
Chapter 56 : Feminization of The Labor Force : The Effects of Long-Term Development and Structural Adjustment’, World Development, 1995
Chapter 57 : Nimble Fingers Revisited : Reflections on Women and Third World Industrialization in The Late Twentieth Century’
Chapter 58 : Global Feminization through Flexible Labor : A Theme Revisited’, World Development, 1999
Chapter 59 : The Asian Crisis, Gender, and The International Financial Architecture’, Feminist Economics, 2000
Chapter 60 : Accounting for Gender in Asian Economic Growth’, Feminist Economics, 2000
Chapter 61 : Globalization, Labor Standards, and Women’s Rights : Dilemmas of Collective (In)action in an Interdependent World’, Feminist Economics, 2004

Part 13 : Gender and Economic Well-Being
Chapter 62 : Accounting for Women’s Work : The Progress of Two Decades’, World Development, 1992
Chapter 63 : Women’s Well-Being, Poverty, and Work Intensity’, Feminist Economics, 1995
Chapter 64 : The Political Economy of Women’s Budgets in The South’, World Development, 2000
Chapter 65 : Budgeting for Equality : The Australian Experience’, Feminist Economics, 2002
Chapter 66 : Development As Freedom? And As What Else?’, Feminist Economics, 2003
Chapter 67 : The Capability Approach : A Theoretical Survey’, Journal of Human Development, 2005

Volume IV : Epistemological and Methodological Considerations

Part 14 : Methodology
Chapter 68 : Gender and Economic Research, Post-Popperian Methodology of Economics : Recovering Practice
Chapter 69 : Hidden by The Invisible Hand : Neoclassical Economic Theory and The Textbook Treatment of Women and Minorities’, Gender & Society
Chapter 70 : Gender, Metaphor, and The Definition of Economics’, Economics and Philosophy, 1992
Chapter 71 : Not a Free Market : The Rhetoric of Disciplinary Authority in Economics
Chapter 72 : Race, Deconstruction, and The Emergent Agenda of Feminist Economic Theory’, Beyond Economic Man : Feminist Theory and Economics
Chapter 73 : The Feminist Challenge to Neoclassical Economics’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1993
Chapter 74 : Can Feminist Thought Make Economics More Objective?’, Feminist Economics, 1995
Chapter 75 : Feminism, Realism, and Universalism’, Feminist Economics, 1999

Part 15 : History of Thought
Chapter 76 : Women in The Economics Profession, 1900-1940’, Essays in Economic and Business History, 1984
Chapter 77 : The Unproductive Housewife : Her Evolution in 19th-Century Economic-Thought’, Signs, 1991
Chapter 78 : The Neglect of Women’s Contributions to Economics
Chapter 79 : Into The Margin!, Out of The Margin : Feminist Perspectives on Economics
Chapter 80 : Saint-Simonian Feminism’, Feminist Economics, 2001
Chapter 81 : The Construction of Masculine Identity in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments

Part 16 : Postcolonial and Postmodern Critical Perspectives
Chapter 82 : Robinson Crusoe : The Quintessential Economic Man?
Chapter 83 : The First World/Third Party Criterion : A Feminist Critique of Production Boundaries in Economics’, Feminist Economics, 1997
Chapter 84 : The Disavowal of The Sexed Body in Neoclassical Economics, Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge, London, Routledge
Chapter 85 : Political Economy Discourses of Globalization and Feminist Politics
Chapter 86 : Women’s Choices and The Ethnocentrism/Relativism Dilemma’, in Steven Cullenberg, Jack Amariglio, and David Ruccio (eds.), Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge
Chapter 87 : Articulating The Postcolonial Postcolonialism Meets Economics
Chapter 88 : Beyond Women and Economics : Rereading Women’s Work’, Signs, 2005