This book offers a historical exploration of the genesis of feminist economics and gender economics, as well as their theoretical and methodological differences. Its narrative also serves to embed both within a broader cultural context.

Giandomenica Becchio is Senior Researcher of Economics and Professor of History of Economic Thought and Methodology of Economics at the University of Turin, Italy.

Introduction

Chapter I. Woman question and political economy.

I.1 Women economists in Great Britain between classical liberalism and Fabianism

I.1.1 The classical liberal tradition during Victorianism

I.1.2 The socialist tradition between Fabianism and Guildism

I.2 Woman question in Austria and Germany: Jewishness and political economy

I.2.1 The classical liberal tradition in Austria and the Austrian school women economists

I.2.2 The socialist tradition in Austrian women economists

I.2.3 Early feminism and political economy in Germany.

I.3 Woman question in the United States: political economy between abolitionism and social reforms

I.3.1 The fight for civil rights

I.3.2 Women's emancipation within economic departments and the role of female entrepreneurship.

Chapter II. Home economics, household economics, and new home economics in the United States.

II.1 The birthing of home economics

II.2 Household economics at the University of Chicago

II.3 From household economics to the new home economics

Chapter III. The genesis and development of feminist economics within academia

III.1 The role of women's studies in the emerging of feminist economics

III.2 Feminist economics: from CSWEP to IAFFE

III.3 Feminist economics' analytical and methodological core

III.4 Feminist Economics: the academic journal

III.5 Possible interconnections between feminist economics and other major heterodox approaches

Chapter IV. Latest developments of gender studies in economics

IV.1 Gender as a cultural category

IV.2 Gender feminist economics

IV.3 Gender neoclassical economics

IV.4 Beyond labels: some data about gender gaps in the world economy

IV. 4.1 Gender labor gap

IV.4.2 Gender wage gap

IV.4.3 Gender entrepreneurship gap

Appendix: Timeline.

Woman question and political economy. The genesis of feminist economics and gender neoclassical economics

Index of names