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  • Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics

    by Drucilla Barker, Edith Kuiper ...
    Series series Economics as Social Theory
    Feminist economists have demonstrated that interrogating hierarchies based on gender, ethnicity, class and nation results in an economics that is biased and more faithful to empirical evidence than are mainstream accounts.This rigorous and comprehensive book examines many of the central philosophical questions and themes in feminist economics inclu ... Read more

    $156.99 CAD

  • Liberating Economics

    Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization

    by Drucilla Barker, Susan F. Feiner ...
    Series series Advances In Heterodox Economics
    Liberating Economics draws on central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles of families, caring labor, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty, the feminization of labor, and the consequences of globalization. Barker and Feiner consistently recognize the importance of social location -- gender, race, class, sexual identity, and ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Liberating Economics, Second Edition

    Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization

    by Drucilla Barker, Suzanne Bergeron, Susan F. Feiner ...
    In this brand-new critical analysis of economics, Barker, Bergeron, and Feiner provide a feminist understanding of the economic processes that shape households, labor markets, globalization, and human well-being to reveal the crucial role that gender plays in the economy today.With all new and updated chapters, the second edition of Liberating Economics examines recent trends in inequality, global ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Feminist Economics and the World Bank

    History, Theory and Policy

    Edited by Edith Kuiper, Drucilla Barker ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    The past decade has witnessed a paradigm shift at the World Bank from a focus on structural adjustment to a focus on poverty reduction. As evidenced by the Bank’s 2001 report, Engendering Development: Through Rights, Resource and Voice, an increased attention to gender issues has been an important part of this process.This book brings together a range of responses from feminist economists and ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

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  • The Third Way and its Critics

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