Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this is a new title in the "Routledge Major Works" series, "Critical Concepts in Economics". It is a four-volume collection of historical and contemporary work in the flourishing field of feminist economics, an innovative and dynamic area of scholarship that broadens the scope of economic inquiry and allows a richer and more complex view of the ways in which economies function. The first two volumes of the collection consist of work done before the founding of the International Association for Feminist Economics in 1991 and are organized historically. The final two volumes consist of cutting-edge contemporary work in feminist economics and are organized thematically. Volume I ('Early Conversations') brings together key material written in the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Much of this fundamental work was done before the professionalization and specialization of the social sciences by writers who were variously categorized as journalists or reformers, and only occasionally as economists. Their writing provides an important historical background to subjects such as household production and gender equality that are central to feminist economics today. Contemporary commentaries on this work are also included in this volume. Volume II ('The Foundations') gathers research from the mid-twentieth century until 1990. Written by professional economists, this work laid the foundations for feminist economics and includes research from those working in the Marxist political economy tradition who first systematically explored the sexual division of labour - which, under capitalism, meant the division between productive (waged) and reproductive (domestic) labour. Volume II also includes work by scholars writing in the neoclassical and institutionalist tradition; in particular, close examinations of women's participation in the labour force, the gender wage gap, and occupational segregation. Volumes III ('Rethinking Economics from a Feminist Perspective') collects the best cutting-edge research by scholars working toward a feminist rethinking of economics. The topics include methodology, the economics of the family, caring labor, and measures of economic well-being, and are treated in the context of both the developed and developing nations. The final volume in the collection (Volume IV: 'Engendering International Economics') assembles material that has a specifically international or global perspective. The themes of this volume include: the feminization of labour; the gendered effects of structural adjustment; property rights and economic transformation; and, postcolonial critiques of both feminist and conventional economic treatments of global issues. Fully indexed and with a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, "Feminist Economics" is an essential reference work. It is destined to be valued by scholars and students of economics - as well as those working in allied disciplines such as women's and gender studies - as a vital research resource.
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