Introduction to Feminist Economics
Prof. Nancy Folbre, January 15, 1 pm, LBR 1, Sidgwick Site
The Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism is very happy to present the first of its Lent Lecture Series: "NOT in the curriculum", that will try to introduce students to economic issues not covered in our degrees.
The first one of these topics is Feminist Economics.
Feminist economics is the critical study of economics attempting to overcome androcentric (male and patriarchal) biases. It focuses on topics of particular relevance to women, such as care work or occupational segregation (exclusion of women and minorities from certain fields) and deficiencies of economic models, such as disregarding intra-household bargaining. Feminist economists call attention to the social constructions of traditional economics, questioning the extent to which it is positive and objective, and showing how its models and methods are biased towards masculine preferences. Since economics is traditionally focused on topics said to be "culturally masculine" such as autonomy, abstraction and logic, feminist economists call for the inclusion of more feminine topics such as family economics, connections, concreteness, and emotion, and show the problems caused by exclusion of those topics.
For more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_economics
This Introductory lecture will be presented by Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. An internationally-renowned authority on this subject, she was President of the International Association for Feminist Economists in 2002, and is an associate editor of the journal Feminist Economics. She has published many books including "Greed, Lust, and Gender. A History of Economic Ideas" and "Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family".
She also writes a regular economics column on the Economix Blog of the New York Times: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nancy-folbre/
The first one of these topics is Feminist Economics.
Feminist economics is the critical study of economics attempting to overcome androcentric (male and patriarchal) biases. It focuses on topics of particular relevance to women, such as care work or occupational segregation (exclusion of women and minorities from certain fields) and deficiencies of economic models, such as disregarding intra-household bargaining. Feminist economists call attention to the social constructions of traditional economics, questioning the extent to which it is positive and objective, and showing how its models and methods are biased towards masculine preferences. Since economics is traditionally focused on topics said to be "culturally masculine" such as autonomy, abstraction and logic, feminist economists call for the inclusion of more feminine topics such as family economics, connections, concreteness, and emotion, and show the problems caused by exclusion of those topics.
For more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_economics
This Introductory lecture will be presented by Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. An internationally-renowned authority on this subject, she was President of the International Association for Feminist Economists in 2002, and is an associate editor of the journal Feminist Economics. She has published many books including "Greed, Lust, and Gender. A History of Economic Ideas" and "Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family".
She also writes a regular economics column on the Economix Blog of the New York Times: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nancy-folbre/