Edited by Robert Dimand, Professor of Economics, Brock University, Canada and Chris Nyland, Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia

'Seven authors contributed to this well-edited volume that explores the publications, lectures, public comments, and correspondence of several well- and lesser-known classical thinkers regarding women's role in society, politics, and the economy. . . . anyone interested in gender scholarship and/or economic thought will find the collection interesting and long overdue. . . . very informative and insightful. I would say it is a book every economist and serious student with an interest in the history of thought and/or gender analysis should read, and of course it will also be beneficial for historians of feminist thought. As a teaching tool, it will make a useful companion to a traditional history of economic thought text.'

• Contents: 1. Gender Relations and Classical Economics – The Evolution of a Tradition 2. Poulain de la Barre and the Rationalist Analysis of the Status of Women 3. John Locke, Equality of Rights and Diversity of Attributes 4. Biology and Environment: Montesquieu’s Relativist Analysis of Gender Behaviour 5. Adam Smith, Stage Theory and the Status of Women 6. Women’s Progress and ‘the End of History’ 7. Condorcet and Equality of the Sexes: One of Many Fronts for a Great Fighter for Liberty of the Eighteenth Century 8. Cultivating Sympathy: Sophie Condorcet’s Letters on Sympathy 9. ‘Let There be no Distinction Between the Sexes’: Jeremy Bentham on the Status of Women 10. An Eighteenth-Century English Feminist Response to Political Economy: Priscilla Wakefield’s Reflections (1798) 11. The Market for Virtue: Jean-Baptiste Say on Women in the Economy and Society 12. Women in Nassau Senior’s Economic Thought 13. William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler: A Marriage of Minds on Jeremy Bentham’s Doorstep 14. Taking Harriet Martineau’s Economics Seriously 15. John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor and French Social Theory Index

Edited by Robert Dimand, Professor of Economics, Brock University, Canada and Chris Nyland, Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia

'Seven authors contributed to this well-edited volume that explores the publications, lectures, public comments, and correspondence of several well- and lesser-known classical thinkers regarding women's role in society, politics, and the economy. . . . anyone interested in gender scholarship and/or economic thought will find the collection interesting and long overdue. . . . very informative and insightful. I would say it is a book every economist and serious student with an interest in the history of thought and/or gender analysis should read, and of course it will also be beneficial for historians of feminist thought. As a teaching tool, it will make a useful companion to a traditional history of economic thought text.'

• Contents: 1. Gender Relations and Classical Economics – The Evolution of a Tradition 2. Poulain de la Barre and the Rationalist Analysis of the Status of Women 3. John Locke, Equality of Rights and Diversity of Attributes 4. Biology and Environment: Montesquieu’s Relativist Analysis of Gender Behaviour 5. Adam Smith, Stage Theory and the Status of Women 6. Women’s Progress and ‘the End of History’ 7. Condorcet and Equality of the Sexes: One of Many Fronts for a Great Fighter for Liberty of the Eighteenth Century 8. Cultivating Sympathy: Sophie Condorcet’s Letters on Sympathy 9. ‘Let There be no Distinction Between the Sexes’: Jeremy Bentham on the Status of Women 10. An Eighteenth-Century English Feminist Response to Political Economy: Priscilla Wakefield’s Reflections (1798) 11. The Market for Virtue: Jean-Baptiste Say on Women in the Economy and Society 12. Women in Nassau Senior’s Economic Thought 13. William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler: A Marriage of Minds on Jeremy Bentham’s Doorstep 14. Taking Harriet Martineau’s Economics Seriously 15. John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor and French Social Theory Index

Edited by Robert Dimand, Professor of Economics, Brock University, Canada and Chris Nyland, Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia

'Seven authors contributed to this well-edited volume that explores the publications, lectures, public comments, and correspondence of several well- and lesser-known classical thinkers regarding women's role in society, politics, and the economy. . . . anyone interested in gender scholarship and/or economic thought will find the collection interesting and long overdue. . . . very informative and insightful. I would say it is a book every economist and serious student with an interest in the history of thought and/or gender analysis should read, and of course it will also be beneficial for historians of feminist thought. As a teaching tool, it will make a useful companion to a traditional history of economic thought text.'

• Contents: 1. Gender Relations and Classical Economics – The Evolution of a Tradition 2. Poulain de la Barre and the Rationalist Analysis of the Status of Women 3. John Locke, Equality of Rights and Diversity of Attributes 4. Biology and Environment: Montesquieu’s Relativist Analysis of Gender Behaviour 5. Adam Smith, Stage Theory and the Status of Women 6. Women’s Progress and ‘the End of History’ 7. Condorcet and Equality of the Sexes: One of Many Fronts for a Great Fighter for Liberty of the Eighteenth Century 8. Cultivating Sympathy: Sophie Condorcet’s Letters on Sympathy 9. ‘Let There be no Distinction Between the Sexes’: Jeremy Bentham on the Status of Women 10. An Eighteenth-Century English Feminist Response to Political Economy: Priscilla Wakefield’s Reflections (1798) 11. The Market for Virtue: Jean-Baptiste Say on Women in the Economy and Society 12. Women in Nassau Senior’s Economic Thought 13. William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler: A Marriage of Minds on Jeremy Bentham’s Doorstep 14. Taking Harriet Martineau’s Economics Seriously 15. John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor and French Social Theory Index