A Note on the History of Gender Economics and Feminist Economics: Not the Same Story

A Note on the History of Gender Economics and Feminist Economics: Not the Same Story

Giandomenica Becchio
ISBN13: 9781522519331|ISBN10: 1522519335|EISBN13: 9781522519348
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1933-1.ch001
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Becchio, Giandomenica. "A Note on the History of Gender Economics and Feminist Economics: Not the Same Story." Discrimination and Diversity: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1933-1.ch001

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Becchio, G. (2017). A Note on the History of Gender Economics and Feminist Economics: Not the Same Story. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Discrimination and Diversity: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1-11). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1933-1.ch001

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Becchio, Giandomenica. "A Note on the History of Gender Economics and Feminist Economics: Not the Same Story." In Discrimination and Diversity: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1-11. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1933-1.ch001

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show the differences between Gender Economics (GE) and Feminist Economics (FE). The first part will deal with a historical reconstruction of these differences. The central part of this chapter will specifically illustrate Gender Economics, Feminist Economics, Feminine Economics, and the Austrian approaches to gender studies within economics. Gender Economics is an approach mainly focused on the role of gender in social and economic problems of the public life (such as labor, migration, household, laws, civil rights) as well as in a private contest (housekeeping, sexuality, and so on). Feminist Economics, Feminine Economics and Austrian economics develop in different ways a much more challenging perspective: they promote a deep revision of the mainstream economic theory founded on the optimization of an expected utility function that has been shaped into a masculine perspective.

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