WOMEN OF VALUE by Mary Ann Dimand (Editor), Robert W. Dimand (Editor), Evelyn L. Forget (Editor) ( 9781852789596 )

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Title:

WOMEN OF VALUE
FEMINIST ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF WOMEN IN ECONOMICS

By:

Mary Ann Dimand (Editor), Robert W. Dimand (Editor), Evelyn L. Forget (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£114.00
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ISBN 10:

185278959X

ISBN 13:

9781852789596

Publisher:

EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING LTD

Pub. date:

1 January, 1995

Pages:

240

Description:

Women economists rarely feature in textbooks on the history of economic thought before 1960, despite the many articles and theses produced by them in the period. This book looks at the lives and thought of the women who contributed to the building of the economics profession.

Synopsis:

Women economists rarely feature in most textbooks on the history of economic thought before 1960, despite the many articles and theses produced by them in the period. Why is their work so little studied? What did they write about? Who listened to them, supported them or hindered them?Women of Value seeks to better understand the lives and work of the women who helped to build the economics profession. A number of these papers focus on the sociology of the economics discipline including the failure to cite the work of women economists, graduate work by women and the personal networks among women economists in the pre-war period. It also includes a personal memoir of the experience of one female graduate student studying in the 1930s. Later papers focus on specific women economists including Jane Marcet, Harriet Martineau, Harriet Taylor, Barbara Bodichon, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Mary Paley Marshall. The final chapter in the book looks at two studies of the role of women in industry carried out in the early twentieth century.Women of Value reassesses the role of women economists by using biographical research to augment the standard tools of historical and bibliographical work. Combining intellectual rigour with biographical insights into the lives and experience of many determined and courageous women economists, this volume will be welcomed by historians of economic thought, feminist economists and and the those with an interest in women's history.

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Imprint:

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

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Returnable

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