Routledge Handbook of the History of Women’s Economic Thought

Cover
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The Routledge Handbook of the history of women’s economic thought......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Notes on contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Introduction......Page 16
Part I: beginning prior to 1850......Page 18
Part II: beginning in the late 19th century......Page 19
Part III: beginning in the early 20th century......Page 20
Part IV: spanning the mid-20th century......Page 21
Part V: beginning mid-20th, extending into the 21st century......Page 22
Notes......Page 24
PART I:
Beginning prior to 1850......Page 26
Chapter 1: Indian women’s agency through Indian women’s literature......Page 28
Lack of wellbeing achievement and the vicious cycle of gender discrimination......Page 29
Agency in effecting wellbeing......Page 34
Concluding remarks......Page 43
Notes......Page 45
References......Page 46
Preliminary remarks and historical contextualization......Page 48
Radical critiques of married women’s economic dependence......Page 56
Access to professions......Page 60
Conclusions......Page 64
References......Page 66
Chapter 3: British women on the British Empire......Page 68
Harriet Martineau (June 1802–June 1876)......Page 69
Mary Kingsley (Oct. 1862–June 1900)......Page 74
Flora Shaw (Dec. 1852–Jan. 1929)......Page 78
Concluding reflections......Page 82
Notes......Page 85
Bibliography......Page 86
Introduction......Page 88
Harriet Taylor Mill......Page 89
Mary Paley Marshall......Page 92
. . . to Alfred Marshall’s Principles of Economics (1890)......Page 93
Beatrice Potter Webb......Page 96
Conclusion......Page 101
Notes......Page 102
References......Page 103
Overview......Page 105
Tokugawa period: the first woman samurai......Page 106
Women activists and the radical changes for women after 1854 and 1945......Page 108
Household economics......Page 112
Formally trained academic economists after 1947......Page 118
Notes......Page 121
Bibliography......Page 122
PART II:
Beginning in the late 19th century......Page 126
Introduction......Page 128
Contextualizing women’s socio-economic thought in pre-1920 Russia......Page 129
Non-Marxist socialism in Russia as democratic socialism: Vera Zasulich, Catherine Breshko-Breshkovskaya, and Maria Spiridonova......Page 130
Women of importance in Russian Marxist economic thought: Nadezhda Krupskaya, Ekaterina Kuskova and Alexandra Kollontai......Page 135
Placing liberalism within Russian context: economic views of Ariadna Tyrkova......Page 137
Conclusion......Page 139
Notes......Page 140
References......Page 141
Introduction......Page 144
Abstract principles and the “woman question”......Page 147
Challenges to the “family wage”......Page 150
The economic consequences of the war......Page 154
Conclusion......Page 158
Notes......Page 159
References......Page 161
Introduction......Page 165
“The minimum wage campaign” for girls and women, 1893–1914......Page 169
Credit and poverty......Page 172
Producer co-operatives......Page 174
Isolation of British working-class housewives......Page 177
Conclusions......Page 180
Notes......Page 181
References......Page 182
Introduction......Page 184
Anecdotes about parental attitude and societal beliefs in inferior intellect and abilities of women......Page 185
Discrimination women economists received as students......Page 187
Employment discrimination......Page 192
Marriage and academic employment......Page 194
Salary, promotion and tenure......Page 197
Inaccessible facilities and materials......Page 199
Women’s contributions to experiences of discrimination......Page 201
Conclusion......Page 202
References......Page 203
Introduction......Page 206
Consciousness......Page 208
Agency......Page 209
Institutions......Page 212
Conclusion......Page 220
References......Page 221
PART III:
Beginning in the early 20th century......Page 224
Chapter 11: Women economists in the academy: struggles and strategies,
1900–1940......Page 226
Mount Holyoke......Page 228
Smith......Page 230
Goucher......Page 233
Bryn Mawr......Page 235
Women economists at universities: Penn and Berkeley......Page 236
Conclusion......Page 238
Notes......Page 240
Bibliography......Page 242
Introduction......Page 244
Wisconsin women economists as a historical group......Page 245
Publishing Institutionalism......Page 247
Teaching Institutionalism......Page 250
Applying Institutionalism......Page 251
Women and the decline of Wisconsin Institutionalism......Page 253
Conclusions......Page 255
Notes......Page 261
References......Page 262
Chapter 13: Women economists of promise? Six Hart, Schaffner and Marx Prize
winners in the early twentieth century......Page 265
Yetta Scheftel (circa 1893–?)......Page 267
Hazel Kyrk (1886–1957)......Page 269
Mollie Ray Carroll (1890–1994)......Page 270
Helen Fisher Hohman (1894–1972)......Page 273
Caroline Ware (1899–1990)......Page 275
Alma Herbst (1892–1968)......Page 278
Notes......Page 284
References......Page 285
Chapter 14: Early women economists at Columbia University: contributions in
the struggle for labor protection in the Lochner era......Page 287
Hutchinson, Baker, and their time......Page 288
The historical approach......Page 291
Beyond economic forces: the significance of wage legislation......Page 293
Criticism of wage legislation......Page 294
Unionization and education......Page 298
Conclusion......Page 300
Notes......Page 301
Bibliography......Page 302
Introduction......Page 305
Historical background......Page 306
Mabel Lee......Page 308
Chung-ying Kuo......Page 312
Yu-pu Pan......Page 314
Conclusion......Page 317
Notes......Page 318
References......Page 320
PART IV:
Spanning the mid-20th century......Page 322
Chapter 16: Austrian School women economists......Page 324
A time-period taxonomy of the four generations of Austrian School women economists......Page 325
Main theoretical contributions by Austrian School women economists......Page 329
Concluding remarks......Page 335
Notes......Page 336
References......Page 337
Introduction......Page 340
Soviet women’s economics in a command economy and its ideologically defensive economic science......Page 341
Women’s voices in the era of reform: from the 1960s through the 1980s......Page 347
Conclusion......Page 350
Notes......Page 351
References......Page 352
Introduction......Page 356
Bibliographical profile......Page 358
The nature of money and the development of private commercial banks......Page 360
Ursula Hicks on central banking practices......Page 361
Vera Lutz about economic “dualism” in Italy and the failure of Keynesian budgetary and monetary policies......Page 363
Central banking in Vera Lutz’s thought: from a rejection (1936) to an adoption for economic development (1962a......Page 365
Concluding remarks......Page 367
Notes......Page 369
References......Page 370
Introduction......Page 373
The social context: Italy in the late 1950s to the 1970s......Page 374
Vera Cao Pinna and Almerina Ipsevich: two parallel lives......Page 378
Vera Cao Pinna and Almerina Ipsevich: a methodological contrast......Page 380
Notes......Page 384
References......Page 386
PART V: Beginning mid-20th, extending into the 21st century......Page 388
Introduction......Page 390
Southern Africa......Page 392
East Africa......Page 397
West Africa......Page 398
Conclusion......Page 403
References......Page 404
Researcher’s approach, limitations and position......Page 407
Socio-economic context: Arab women in education and the labor force......Page 408
A history of women in education in the Arab Homeland......Page 411
Female economists in Lebanon......Page 412
Female economists in Egypt......Page 413
Female economists: Saudi Arabia......Page 415
Jordan......Page 416
Female ministers of economics in the Arab Homeland......Page 417
Conclusion......Page 418
Notes......Page 419
Bibliography......Page 420
Introduction......Page 422
CEPAL: a brief presentation......Page 423
Corpus definition and its limits......Page 425
Who are the most prolific women in CEPAL-associated publications?......Page 427
Analysis of the findings of the ten most prolific women in CEPAL: a group picture......Page 431
Online visibility......Page 434
Conclusions......Page 435
Notes......Page 439
References......Page 440
Introduction......Page 443
Women, development, and the informal economy: Lourdes Benería......Page 445
Addressing informal employment: Martha Chen......Page 450
Conclusions......Page 454
Bibliography......Page 455
Introduction......Page 457
Biographical background......Page 458
Formalizing Phelps’ analysis......Page 459
Comparing Phelps (1972) to two other economic theories of marriage......Page 461
Policy implications......Page 464
“Is the household obsolete?” A comment on Grossbard by Charlotte D. Phelps......Page 466
Notes......Page 467
References......Page 468
Index......Page 470