History of Feminist and Gender Economics

Giandomenica Becchio is Senior Researcher of Economics and Professor of History of Economic Thought and Methodology of Economics at the University of Turin, Italy.

"[T]his book provides a very useful and broad view of the long history of feminist and gender economics. It provides many interesting insights (my own copy is replete with Post-it Notes). It also encompasses female economists and thinkers whose names and work are not nearly as familiar to us as they should be...The book has been an enormous help to me in providing a tapestry of thinkers and their intersecting ideas, assisting me to better comprehend the intellectual and historical background of feminist and gender economics."Miriam Bankovsky, History of Political Economy

• IntroductionChapter I. Woman question and political economy.I.1 Women economists in Great Britain between classical liberalism and FabianismI.1.1 The classical liberal tradition during VictorianismI.1.2 The socialist tradition between Fabianism and GuildismI.2 Woman question in Austria and Germany: Jewishness and political economyI.2.1 The classical liberal tradition in Austria and the Austrian school women economistsI.2.2 The socialist tradition in Austrian women economistsI.2.3 Early feminism and political economy in Germany.I.3 Woman question in the United States: political economy between abolitionism and social reforms I.3.1 The fight for civil rightsI.3.2 Women’s emancipation within economic departments and the role of female entrepreneurship.Chapter II. Home economics, household economics, and new home economics in the United States.II.1 The birthing of home economics II.2 Household economics at the University of ChicagoII.3 From household economics to the new home economicsChapter III. The genesis and development of feminist economics within academiaIII.1 The role of women’s studies in the emerging of feminist economicsIII.2 Feminist economics: from CSWEP to IAFFEIII.3 Feminist economics’ analytical and methodological coreIII.4 Feminist Economics: the academic journalIII.5 Possible interconnections between feminist economics and other major heterodox approachesChapter IV. Latest developments of gender studies in economicsIV.1 Gender as a cultural categoryIV.2 Gender feminist economicsIV.3 Gender neoclassical economics IV.4 Beyond labels: some data about gender gaps in the world economyIV. 4.1 Gender labor gapIV.4.2 Gender wage gapIV.4.3 Gender entrepreneurship gapAppendix: Timeline. Woman question and political economy. The genesis of feminist economics and gender neoclassical economicsIndex of names