A 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.

Introduction



Chapter I. Woman question and political economy.



I.1 Women economists in Great Britain between classical liberalism and Fabianism



I.1.1 The classical liberal tradition during Victorianism



I.1.2 The socialist tradition between Fabianism and Guildism



I.2 Woman question in Austria and Germany: Jewishness and political economy



I.2.1 The classical liberal tradition in Austria and the Austrian school women economists



I.2.2 The socialist tradition in Austrian women economists



I.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 rights



I.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 Chicago



II.3 From household economics to the new home economics



Chapter III. The genesis and development of feminist economics within academia



III.1 The role of women’s studies in the emerging of feminist economics



III.2 Feminist economics: from CSWEP to IAFFE



III.3 Feminist economics’ analytical and methodological core



III.4 Feminist Economics: the academic journal



III.5 Possible interconnections between feminist economics and other major heterodox approaches



Chapter IV. Latest developments of gender studies in economics



IV.1 Gender as a cultural category



IV.2 Gender feminist economics



IV.3 Gender neoclassical economics



IV.4 Beyond labels: some data about gender gaps in the world economy



IV. 4.1 Gender labor gap



IV.4.2 Gender wage gap



IV.4.3 Gender entrepreneurship gap



Appendix: Timeline.



Woman question and political economy. The genesis of feminist economics and gender neoclassical economics



Index of names