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1	Pitch Like a Girl: How a Woman Can Be Herself and Still Succeed more books like this by Ronna Lichtenberg "Proven techniques to maximize a woman't instinctive strengths and effectiveness in the workplace" ""Despite steady advancement, part of the reason women still struggle to succeed in business is the discomfort they feel doing anything that feels like self-promotion. That's why Ronna Lichtenberg, corporate veteran turned highly sought-after ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Feminist Economics Today: Beyond Economic Man more books like this by Marianne A Ferber (Editor), Julie A Nelson (Editor) The 1993 publication of Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson's "Beyond Economic Man" was a landmark in both feminist scholarship and the discipline of economics, and it quickly became a handbook for those seeking to explore the emerging connections between the two. A decade later, this book looks back at the progress of feminist economics and ... see all copies from $12.89! new only from $12.89! \| SVS
3	Feminism, Objectivity and Economics more books like this by Julie A Nelson This book extends feminist analysis to economics. As well as evaluating the core models of neoclassical economics, this book includes case studies in topics such as the theory of the family, income tax policy and macroeconomics. It presents the outlines of a less gender biased-discipline which would be richer, more useful and more objective. ... see all copies from $2.20! new only from $57.68! \| first editions
4	Power, Production and Social Reproduction: Human In/Security in the Global Political Economy more books like this by Isabella Bakker (Editor), Professor Stephen Gill (Editor) Written by authorities from Europe, the Americas and Asia, this work develops an innovative and original theorization of global political economy. It argues that what feminists call social reproduction is a more basic framework, upon which most forms of power and production, and states and markets, must necessarily rest. By combining feminist and ... see all copies from $14.90! new only from $23.89! \| SVS
5	Engendering Economics: Conversations with Women Economists in the United States more books like this by Zohren Emami (Editor), Paulette I Olson (Editor) It is an amazing fact that by the 1950's the percentage of all economic doctorates awarded to women dropped by a record low of under five percent. This book supports the growing feminist literature that challenge the unrelenting focus on the suburban post-war housewife that has obscured the complexity of women's lives during this period and the ... see all copies from $14.89! new only from $48.64! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age more books like this by Professor Kath Weston, Weston Kath After decades of innovative scholarship that galvanized a field and shattered a world of preconceptions, the study of gender now appears to languish. It has been a long while since the publication of a provocative and influential text like Judith Butler's "Gender" "Trouble," Kath Weston argues that the problem is one of time. For too long gender ... see all copies from $22.50! new only from $38.99! \| first editions
7	Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics more books like this by Marianne A Ferber (Editor), Julie A Nelson (Editor) This is the first book to examine the central tenets of economics from a feminist point of view. In these original essays, the authors suggest that the discipline of economics could be improved by freeing itself from masculine biases. Beyond Economic Man raises questions about the discipline not because economics is too objective but because it is ... see all copies from $4.76! new only from $21.81! \| SVS
8	Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law, and Society more books like this by Martha A Fineman (Editor), Terence Dougherty (Editor) see all copies from $15.20! new only from $15.20!
9	Women and the Economy more books like this by Deborah M Figart (Editor), Ellen Mutari (Editor) This reader is designed for use as a primary or supplementary text for courses on women's role in the economy. Both interdisciplinary and heterodox in its approach, it showcases feminist economic analyses that utilize insights from institutionalism as well as neoclassical economics. Including both classic and newer selections from a broad range of ... see all copies from $7.52! new only from $33.75!
10	Economics for Humans more books like this by Julie A Nelson At its core, an economy is about providing goods and services for human well-being. But many economists and critics preach that an economy is something far different: a cold and heartless system that operates outside of human control. In this impassioned and perceptive work, Julie A. Nelson asks a compelling question: If our economic world is ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $11.71! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Hitting Home more books like this by Gloria H Albrecht At the very time when most women's lives are defined by a lack of income, time, and energy, and when being stressed-out is for them more common than the common cold, politicians and other professed guardians of public virtue are stridently lamenting the loss of what they define as "family values." Even as women enter the workforce to provide ... see all copies from $2.80! new only from $9.78!
12 view cover	Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism: The Czech Republic After Communism more books like this by Professor Jacqui True How are the changing gender relations shaping and being shaped by post-socialist marketization and liberalization? Do new forms of economic and cultural globalization open spaces for women's empowerment and feminist politics? The rapid social transformations experienced by the people of the Czech Republic in the wake of the collapse of communism ... see all copies from $4.70! new only from $19.95!
13 view cover	In Justice more books like this by Ann-Cathrin Jarl The surprisingly vehement demonstrations at recent meetings of international monetary organizations have alerted people to the dangers of new global economic arrangements. Are there any fundamental standards within economic theory? How can economies and economic proposals best be measured? What does economic justice mean today? Spurred especially ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $9.99! \| SVS
14 view cover	Women and the Distribution of Wealth: Feminist Economics more books like this by Carmen Diana Deere (Editor), Cheryl R Doss (Editor) Gender is rarely taken into account in analyses of the distribution of wealth, and the evidence on women's ownership of wealth is surprisingly scarce. It is important to examine the distribution of wealth by gender because gender is one important dimension along which inequality exists. In addition, women and men may use their wealth, and the ... see all copies from $44.91! new only from $44.91! \| SVS
15 view cover	Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as If People Mattered more books like this by Lourdes Beneria With Cold War politics lost as the organizing principle behind international politics, development (and its related buzzwords of globalization and democratization) has become the most important policy goal of every international organization. The main objective of Gender, Development and Globalization is to highlight the ways in which feminist ... see all copies from $6.88! new only from $33.90! \| SVS
16 view cover	Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-Liberalism more books like this by Kate Bezanson (Editor), Meg Luxton (Editor) Using a feminist political economy approach, contributors document the impact of current socio-economic policies on states, markets, households, and communities. Relying on impressive empirical research, they argue that women bear the costs of and responsibility for care-giving and show that the theoretical framework provided by feminist analyses ... see all copies from $17.70! new only from $33.27!
17 view cover	Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation, Bio/Diversity more books like this by Susan Hawthorne, PH.D. The personal and the political, the local and the global--divergent perspectives are synthesized in this visionary examination of globalization and how it affects individual lives. Personal stories of urban and rural living reveal the many varieties of experience and how Western culture has created both immense wealth and poverty. Discussions of ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $20.89! \| first editions
18 view cover	Gender and Political Economy: Incorporating Diversity Into Theory and Policy more books like this by Ellen Mutari (Editor), William Fraher (Editor), Heather Boushey (Editor) This book provides an overview of current developments within feminist political economy, including reformulations of economic theory, historical and empirical research on the economic roles and status of women and people of color, as well as proposals for broadening the public policy agenda. Rather than offering a feminist critique of ... see all copies from $4.05! new only from $39.30!
19 view cover	Macro-Economics: Making Gender Matter: Concepts, Policies and Institutional Change in Developing Countries more books like this by Martha Gutierrez (Editor) Economic analysis grounded in a gender approach is beginning to enter mainstream economics. The discipline is recognizing that economic behaviour may be influenced by gender, and that gender discrimination is inherent in some macro-economic concepts. This work contributes to this analysis. It makes clear the biases arising from using statistical ... see all copies from $31.13! new only from $56.16! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Feminist Economics of Trade more books like this by Irene Van Staveren (Editor), Diane Elson (Editor), Caren Grown (Editor) Unravelling the complex relationship between gender inequality and trade, this is the first book to combine the tools of economic and gender analysis to examine the relationship between international trade and gender relations. The book brings together fourteen contributions from a variety of economic perspectives, including structuralist, ... see all copies from $48.64! new only from $48.64! \| SVS
21 view cover	The End of Capitalism (as We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy more books like this by J K Gibson-Graham Why does the future (not to mention the present) seem to offer no hope of escape from capitalism? Ironically, the author argues, it is not the economic discourse of the right but primarily the socialist and Marxist traditions that have constituted capitalism as large, powerful, active, expansive, penetrating, systematic, self-reproducing, dynamic, ... see all copies from $22.20! new only from $24.25!
22 view cover	The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics more books like this by Janice Peterson This volume is a comprehensive reference work introducing readers to the field of feminist economics. It addresses key concepts as well as feminist economic critiques and reconstructions of major economic theories and policy debates. see all copies from $75.52! new only from $75.52!
23 view cover	Macro-Economics: Making Gender Matter: Concepts, Policies and Institutional Change in Developing Countries more books like this by Peter Griffiths, Martha Gutierrez Economic analysis grounded in a gender approach is beginning to enter mainstream economics. The discipline is recognizing that economic behaviour may be influenced by gender, and that gender discrimination is inherent in some macro-economic concepts. This work contributes to this analysis. It makes clear the biases arising from using statistical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
24 view cover	The End of Capitalism, as We Knew It: A Feminist Critique of Political Economy more books like this by J. K. Gibson-Graham Why does the future (not to mention the present) seem to offer no hope of escape from capitalism? Ironically, the author argues, it is not the economic discourse of the right but primarily the socialist and Marxist traditions that have constituted capitalism as large, powerful, active, expansive, penetrating, systematic, self-reproducing, dynamic, ... see all copies from $5.85! new only from $99.00!
25 view cover	Feminist Economics: Interrogating the Masculinity of Rational Economic Man more books like this by Gillian J. Hewitson Hewitson (business, La Trobe U., Australia) uses a feminist poststructuralist approach to expose the masculinity of the allegedly unsexed figure of the neoclassical "rational economic man". Employing a wide range of poststructuralist writings, she argues that neoclassical economics does construct sexual differences and that the notion of the ... see all copies from $60.00! new only from $114.16!

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