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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 forward
to its future, offering both a thorough overview
of feminist economic thought and a collection
of new, high quality work from the field’s
leading scholars.
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“Beyond Economic Man represented
a milestone in feminist economics and became a classic
text not just for feminist economics but also for
feminist scholars more generally. It was novel,
fresh, and important, a hard act to follow. But
the sequel delivers the goods. The strength of this
volume is testimony to the vitality of feminist
economics, which is maturing from a critique to
an approach.”
--Jane Humphries, editor of Gender and Economics
“Beyond Economic Man
was a pathbreaking book—one of the first to
offer feminist economics and those intrigued by
this seeming oxymoron a way to understand and validate
the new field. The articles in this follow-up volume
are remarkably clear and readable. The authors tap
what I believe is most important about feminist
economics—its critique of mainstream economics
for being profoundly gender biased, and new ways
to think about care giving and collaboration in
economics.”
--Randy Albelda, author of Economics and Feminism
and coauthor of The War on the Poor
Marianne A. Ferber is professor emerita
of economics and women’s studies at the University
of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Julie A. Nelson
is senior research associate at the Global Development
and Environment Institute of Tufts University and
the author of Feminism, Objectivity, and Economics.
Both are associate editors of the journal Feminist
Economics.
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