Routledge Handbook of the History of Women’s Economic Thought

The marginalization of women in economics has a history as long as the discipline itself. Throughout the history of economics, women contributed substantial novel ideas, methods of inquiry, and analytical insights, with much of this discounted, ignored, or shifted into alternative disciplines and writing outlets. This handbook presents new and much-needed analytical research of women’s contributions in the history of economic thought, focusing primarily on the period from the 1770s into the beginning of the 21st century. Chapters address the institutional, sociological and historical factors that have influenced women economists’ thinking, and explore women’s contributions to economic analysis, method, policies and debates. Coverage is international, moving beyond Europe and the US into the Arab world, China, India, Japan, Latin America, Russia and the Soviet Union, and sub-Saharan Africa. This new global perspective adds depth as well as scope to our understanding of women’s contribution to the history of economic thought. The book offers crucial new insights into previously underexplored work by women in the history of economic thought, and will prove to be a seminal volume with relevance beyond that field, into women’s studies, sociology, and history.

Introduction Part I Beginning Prior to 1850 Chapter 1Indian Women’s Agency through Indian Women’s LiteratureSheetal Bharat Chapter 2English Women’s Economic Thought in the 1790s: Domestic Economy, Married Women’s Economic Dependence, and Access to Professions Joanna Rostek Chapter 3British Women on the British EmpireJanet Seiz Chapter 4Harriet Taylor Mill, Mary Paley Marshall and Beatrice Potter Webb: Women Economists and Economists’ WivesVirginie Gouverneur Chapter 5Japanese Women’s Economics, 1818-2005Aiko Ikeo Part II Beginning in the Late 19th Century Chapter 6Contextualizing women’s economic thought in late Imperial Russia and in the early years of Revolution: 1870-1920 Anna Klimina Chapter 7Is Equal Pay Worth It? Beatrice Potter Webb's, Millicent Garrett Fawcett's and Eleanor Rathbone’s changing argumentsCléo Chassonnery- Zaïgouche Chapter 8The Economic Thought of the Women’s Co-Operative GuildKirsten Maddenand Joe Persky Chapter 9Anecdotes of Discrimination: Barriers to Women’s Participation in Economic Thought During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesKirsten Madden Chapter 10The Point is to Change It: Three Lives of Applied MarxismZoe Sherman Part III Beginning in the early 20th Century Chapter 11Women Economists in the Academy: Struggles and Strategies, 1900-1940 Mary Ann Dzuback Chapter 12Daughters of Commons: Wisconsin Women and InstitutionalismMarianne Johnson Chapter 13Women Economists of Promise? Six Hart, Schaffner and Marx Prize Winners in the Early Twentieth CenturyKirsten Madden Chapter 14Early Women Economists at Columbia University: Contributions in the Struggle for Labor Protection in the Lochner EraClara Elisabetta Mattei Chapter 15Chinese Economic Development and Chinese Women Economists: A Study of Overseas Doctoral DissertationsYue Xiao Part IV Spanning the Mid-20th Century Chapter 16 Austrian School Women EconomistsGiandomenica Becchio Chapter 17Placing women’s economics within Soviet economic discourse: 1920s - 1991Anna Klimina Chapter 18Ursula Hicks' and Vera Lutz’s contributions to development financeLucy Brillant Chapter 19The Two Faces of Economic Forecasting in Italy: Vera Cao Pinna and Almerina IpsevichMarcella Corsiand Giulia Zacchia Part V Beginning mid-20th, Extending into the 21st Century Chapter 20 The First 100 Years of Female Economists in Sub-Saharan AfricaLola Fowler and Robert W. Dimand Chapter 21Women Economists of the Arab HomelandTalia Yousefand Robert W. Dimand Chapter 22The Invisible Ones: Women at CEPAL (1948-2017)Rebeca Gómez Betancourtand Camila Orozco Espinel Chapter 23Women’s employment in the Informal Sector in Developing Countries: Contributions of Lourdes Beneria and Martha (Marty) ChenFarida Chowdhury Khan Chapter 24Women’s neoclassical models of marriage, 1972-2015Shoshana Grossbard

Kirsten Madden is Associate Professor of Economics at Millersville University, USA. Robert W. Dimand is a Professor of Economics at Brock University, Canada.