The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the contributions of feminist economics to the discipline of economics and beyond.
Each chapter situates the topic within the history of the field, reflects upon current debates, and looks forward to identify cutting-edge research. Consistent with feminist economics’ goal of strong objectivity, this Handbook compiles contributions from different traditions in feminist economics (including but not limited to Marxian political economy, institutionalist economics, ecological economics and neoclassical economics) and from different disciplines (such as economics, philosophy and political science). The Handbook delineates the social provisioning methodology and highlights its insights for the development of feminist economics. The contributors are a diverse mix of established and rising scholars of feminist economics from around the globe who skilfully frame the current state and future direction of feminist economic scholarship.
This carefully crafted volume will be an essential resource for researchers and instructors of feminist economics.
Author(s): Günseli Berik and Ebru Kongar
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 516
City: London
Cover
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Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction
1 The social provisioning approach in feminist economics: the unfolding research
Part I Core concepts and frameworks
2 Feminist challenges to development economics
3 Feminist political economy
4 Feminist institutional economics
5 Conceptualizing patriarchal systems
6 Feminist ecological economics
7 The capability approach
8 Human rights and feminist economics
9 Care work
10 Three faces of agency in feminist economics: capabilities, empowerment, and citizenship
11 Beyond separative and soluble selves
12 Intersectional identities and analysis
Part II Methods, methodology, and measurement
13 Feminist use of quantitative methods
14 Feminist use of qualitative/interpretive methods
15 Time allocation and time-use surveys
16 Measurement of well-being
Part III Resources for provisioning
17 The feminization of the labor force and five associated myths
18 Gender discrimination in the US Labor market
19 Contingent work and the gig economy
20 Labor markets and informal work in the global south
21 International trade and women workers in the global south
22 Rural women’s livelihoods and food security in Africa
23 Global migration and care chains
24 Sex work and trafficking
25 Women’s work in post-reform China
26 Market reform in transition economies
27 Environmental resources and gender inequality: use, degradation, and conservation
28 Poverty
29 Family formation in the US and Western Europe
30 Gender division of labor among couples
31 Intrahousehold decision-making and resource allocation
32 Assets, wealth, and property rights in the global south
33 Intimate partner violence
34 Reproductive health and economic empowerment
Part IV Institutions and policies
35 Gender and economic growth
36 Care and the macroeconomy
37 Gendering the analysis of economic crises
38 Degrowth
39 Care regimes in the European Union
40 The fragmented state of work-family policies in the US
41 Care policies in the global south
42 Collective bargaining and unions in the US
43 The quest for inclusion in economics in the US: fifty years of slow progress
Part V International governance and social provisioning
44 Group-based financial services in the global south: examining evidence on social efficacy
45 The sustainable development goals: reflections from a feminist economics perspective
46 Global social policy
47 Gender budgeting
48 Smart economics
49 International labor standards and tripartism
50 Cooperatives
Index
