Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of figures x
List of tables xi
List of contributors xii
Preface xvii
Introduction 1
1 The social provisioning approach in feminist economics:
the unfolding research 3
Günseli Berik and Ebru Kongar
PART I
Core concepts and frameworks 23
2 Feminist challenges to development economics 25
Lourdes Benería and Gita Sen
3 Feminist political economy 34
Smriti Rao and A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi
4 Feminist institutional economics 43
Ellen Mutari
5 Conceptualizing patriarchal systems 53
Nancy Folbre
6 Feminist ecological economics 62
Patricia E. Perkins
7 The capability approach 72
Ingrid Robeyns
8 Human rights and feminist economics 81
Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz
9 Care work 90
Katherine A. Moos
10 Three faces of agency in feminist economics: capabilities,
empowerment, and citizenship 99
Naila Kabeer
11 Beyond separative and soluble selves 108
Julie A. Nelson
12 Intersectional identities and analysis 118
Nina Banks
PART II
Methods, methodology, and measurement 127
13 Feminist use of quantitative methods 129
Joyce P. Jacobsen
14 Feminist use of qualitative/interpretive methods 138
Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
15 Time allocation and time-use surveys 148
Maria S. Floro
16 Measurement of well-being 157
Irene van Staveren
PART III
Resources for provisioning 167
17 The feminization of the labor force and five associated myths 169
Jane Humphries and Carmen Sarasúa
18 Gender discrimination in the US Labor market 179
Heidi Hartmann and Jessica Milli
19 Contingent work and the gig economy 189
Deborah M. Figart
20 Labor markets and informal work in the global south 198
Alma Espino and Daniela de los Santos
21 International trade and women workers in the global south 207
Nidhiya Menon and Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
22 Rural women’s livelihoods and food security in Africa 216
Dzodzi Tsikata and Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey
23 Global migration and care chains 225
Sarah Gammage
24 Sex work and trafficking 234
Francesca Bettio
25 Women’s work in post-reform China 243
Xiao-yuan Dong and Fiona MacPhail
26 Market reform in transition economies 254
Mieke Meurs
27 Environmental resources and gender inequality: use, degradation,
and conservation 264
Bina Agarwal
28 Poverty 274
İpek İlkkaracan and Emel Memiş
29 Family formation in the US and Western Europe 284
Elaine McCrate
30 Gender division of labor among couples 293
Lisa Giddings
31 Intrahousehold decision-making and resource allocation 303
Cheryl Doss
32 Assets, wealth, and property rights in the global south 312
Carmen Diana Deere and Abena D. Oduro
33 Intimate partner violence 321
Jacqueline Strenio
34 Reproductive health and economic empowerment 330
Kelly M. Jones and Anna Bernstein
PART IV
Institutions and policies 339
35 Gender and economic growth 341
Stephanie Seguino
36 Care and the macroeconomy 351
Elissa Braunstein
37 Gendering the analysis of economic crises 360
Jill Rubery
38 Degrowth 369
Corinna Dengler
39 Care regimes in the European Union 378
Janneke Plantenga
40 The fragmented state of work-family policies in the US 390
Randy Albelda
41 Care policies in the global south 400
Valeria Esquivel
42 Collective bargaining and unions in the US 409
Tanima Ahmed and Ariane Hegewisch
43 The quest for inclusion in economics in the US: fifty years
of slow progress 420
Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe
PART V
International governance and social provisioning 431
44 Group-based financial services in the global south: examining
evidence on social efficacy 433
Ranjula Bali Swain and Supriya Garikipati
45 The sustainable development goals: reflections from a feminist
economics perspective 441
Shahra Razavi
46 Global social policy 450
Corina Rodríguez Enríquez
47 Gender budgeting 459
Diane Elson
48 Smart economics 468
Elisabeth Prügl
49 International labor standards and tripartism 477
David Kucera
50 Cooperatives 486
Simel Eşim
Index 495
