Women's economic thought in the romantic age towards a transdisciplinary herstory of economic thought

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Rostek, Joanna, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2021.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Routledge IAFFE advances in feminist economics ; 21.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • Part I A transdisciplinary methodology for a herstory of economic thought
  • 2 Women and scholarship: the cultural forms of knowledge formation
  • Scholarship as a cultural and gendered practice
  • Women and the history of thought: Lost-Gems approach versus epistemological criticism
  • Women and the emergence of modern scholarship in the Romantic Age
  • 3 Women and economics: the outside(r)s of economic discourse
  • Feminist economics and powerful demarcations: centre versus periphery, mainstream versus heterodoxy
  • The androcentric bias of the history of economic thought
  • The androcentric bias of mainstream economics: topics, concepts and methods, code
  • 4 Women and writing: the gendered legacy of genre
  • Gender, genre, and academic disciplines in the Romantic Age and beyond
  • The limitations of genre in practice: the example of Jane Austen
  • Interlude: gender, genres, and knowledge formation today
  • Part II Women's economic thought in the Romantic Age
  • 5 Feminist economics of marriage
  • The legal context: the economic effects of coverture
  • Marriage as economic risk: Sarah Chapone's Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives (1735)
  • Illustrations of the patriarchal economy: Mary Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman (1798)
  • Egalitarian economics of marriage: Mary Hays's Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women (1798) and Mary Robinson's Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination (1799)
  • Real-life echoes: the testimonies of Charlotte Smith and Nelly Weeton
  • 6 Women and paid work
  • Women and work around 1800.
  • A conservative demand for women's right to paid work: Priscilla Wakefield's Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex (1798)
  • "Let then the claim to these female occupations be developed": Mary Ann Radcliffe's The Female Advocate (1799)
  • 7 Moral economics
  • Revaluing Jane Austen: economic novels versus novel economics
  • The benefits of balance: Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1811)
  • Coda: billing Jane Austen in the 21st century
  • 8 Conclusion: the patriarchal economy
  • References
  • Index.