Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: The Social Construction of Economics and the Social Construction of Gender 1
5. 1. The Study of Choice or the Study of Provisioning? Gender and the Definition of Economics 23
6. 2. The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions 37
7. 3. Not a Free Market: The Rhetoric of Disciplinary Authority in Economics 54
8. 4. Some Consequences of a Conjective Economics 69
9. 5. Socialism, Feminist and Scientific 94
10. 6. Public or Private? Institutional Economics and Feminism 111
11. 7. Discussion and Challenges
12. What Should Mainstream Economists Learn from Feminist Theory? 133
13. Race, Deconstruction, and the Emergent Agenda of Feminist Economic Theory 144
14. Feminist Theory, Women's Experience, and Economics 153
15. Economics for Whom? 158
16. Biographies of the Contributors 169
17. Index 173