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Women and the Economy: A Reader
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Description: 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 areas, each section includes an introduction with background material, as well as discussion questions, exercises, and lists of key terms and further readings.
Selected Contents:
Tables and Figures
Preface
Section 1. Methodologies for Studying Women and the Economy
1. Rethinking Economics Through a Feminist Lens Myra H. Strober
2. Revisiting Class: Thinking from Gender, Race, and Organizations Joan Acker
3. Feminist Economics: From Theory to Research Martha MacDonald
Appendix
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Exercise
Further Reading
Section 2. The Rise and Fall of Separate Spheres
4. Breadwinners and Other Workers: Gender and Race-Ethnicity in the Evolution of the Labor Force Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power
5. Industrialization, Female Labor Force Participation, and the Modern Division of Labor by Sex William Rau and Robert Wazienski
6. Men and Monotony: Fraternalism as a Managerial Strategy at the Ford Motor Company Wayne A. Lewchuk
7.Exploring the "Present Through the Past": Career and Family Across the Last Century Claudia Goldin
8. Marriage, Children, and Women's Employment: What Do We Know? Philip N. Cohen and Suzanne M. Bianchi
Appendix
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Exercises
Further Reading
Section 3. Households and Social Reproduction
9. The Economic Risks of Being a Housewife Barbara R. Bergmann
10. For Love or Money-Or Both? Nancy Folbre and Julie A. Nelson
11. Student Attitudes Toward Roles of Women and Men: Is the Egalitarian Household Imminent? Marianne A. Ferber and Lauren Young
12. The Household as a Focus for Research Jane Wheelock and Elizabeth Oughton
Appendix
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Exercises
Further Reading
Section 4. Mainstream Approaches to Labor Market Outcomes
13. The Earnings Gap and Family Choices Michael Levin
14. Race and Gender Wage Gaps in the Market for Recent College Graduates Catherine J. Weinberger
15. Motor Bus Deregulation and the Gender Wage Gap: A Test of the Becker Hypothesis Ann Schwarz-Miller and Wayne K. Talley
16. "That Single-Mother Element": How White Employers Typify Black Women Ivy Kennelly
Appendix
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Exercises
Further Reading
Section 5. Heterodox Approaches to Labor Market Outcomes
17. The Political Economy of Labor Market Discrimination: A Classroom-Friendly Presentation of the Theory Steven Shulman
18. Black Women's Breakthrough into Clerical Work: An Occupational Tipping Model Mary C. King
19. Gender as More Than a Dummy Variable: Feminist Approaches to Discrimination Deborah M. Figart
20. Just Checking It Out: Exploring the Significance of Informal Gender Divisions Among American Supermarket Employees Martin Tolich and Celia Briar
Appendix
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Exercises
Further Reading
Section 6. Policies Affecting Women, Work, and Families
21. Single, with Children: The Economic Plight of Single Mothers Randy Albelda and Chris Tilly
22. The Minimum Wage Increase: A Working Woman's Issue Jared Bernstein, Heidi Hartmann, and John Schmitt
23. The Challenge of Comparable Worth: An Institutionalist View Janice Peterson
24. Curing Child Poverty in the United States Barbara R. Bergmann
25. Why Americans Need Family Leave Benefits and How They Can Get Them Betty Holcomb
Appendix
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Exercises
Further Reading
Section 7. The Gendered Impact of Economic Development and Globalization
26. Gender and International Labor Standards in the World Economy Nilufer Cagatay
27. Globalization, Gender and the Davos Man Lourdes Beneria
28. Development, Gender, and the Environment: Theoretical or Contextual Link? Toward an Institutional Analysis of Gender Eiman Zein-Elabdin
29. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Appendix
Key Terms
Discussion Questions
Exercises
Further Reading
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
Comment(s): "Mutari and Figart provide a cleverly diversified portfolio of important essays and an efficient overview of a rapidly expanding field. Readers will profit from the clear organization and thoughtful editorial commentary. This book is ideal for undergraduate courses on women and the economy." -- Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts
"This comprehensive and highly readable text does an excellent job of examining the political economy of gender in the context of both race/ethnicity and class. Bringing together skillfully edited articles from economics and the social sciences, this reader will engage students with feminist economic analysis across a wide range of theoretical positions. A much needed and carefully fashioned teaching resource." -- Paula Rothenberg, William Paterson University
Review(s): The sets provide coverage of the current concerns of feminist economists...Recommended. All levels of undergraduates. Choice Vol. 41 No. 03
    
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