Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
About the Book Series
The International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) aims to increase the visibility and range of economic research on gender; facilitate communication among scholars, policymakers, and activists concerned with women's wellbeing and empowerment; promote discussions among policy makers about interventions which serve women's needs; educate economists, policymakers, and the general public about feminist perspectives on economic issues; foster feminist evaluations of economics as a discipline; expose the gender blindness characteristic of much social science and the ways in which this impoverishes all research - even research that does not explicitly concern women’s issues; help expand opportunities for women, especially women from underrepresented groups, within economics; and, encourage the inclusion of feminist perspectives in the teaching of economics.
The IAFFE book series pursues the aims of the organization by providing a forum in which scholars have space to develop their ideas at length and in detail. The series exemplifies the value of feminist research and the high standard of IAFFE-sponsored scholarship.
Women and Austerity: The Economic Crisis and the Future for Gender Equality
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Karamessini, Jill Rubery
August 05, 2013
Austerity has become the new principle for public policy in Europe and the US as the financial crisis of 2008 has been converted into a public debt crisis. However, current austerity measures risk losing past progress towards gender equality by undermining important employment and social welfare ...
Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power: Gender, Work and Engineering
1st Edition
By Julie Mills, Suzanne Franzway, Judith Gill, Rhonda Sharp
July 18, 2013
Women in the developed world expect to work in the labour force over the course of their lives. On finishing school more girls are entering universities and undertaking professional training for careers than ever before. Males and females enter many high status professions in roughly equal numbers....
Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Brigitte Young, Isabella Bakker, Diane Elson
September 27, 2011
Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective brings together feminist economists and feminist political economists from different countries located in North America and Europe to analyze the ‘strategic silence’ about gender in fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation. ...
Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment
1st Edition
Edited
By Leah F. Vosko, Martha MacDonald, Iain Campbell
August 25, 2009
Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and ...
Gender and Chinese Development: Towards an Equitable Society
1st Edition
By Lanyan Chen
September 12, 2008
This book takes a look beneath the surface of this "miracle growth", to explore the political economy of this process. Beyond the superficial macroeconomics of high growth rates, increasing GDP per capita and high trade volume, the book looks at what is happening to the very socioeconomic and ...
Sex Markets: A Denied Industry
1st Edition
By Marina Della Giusta, Maria Di Tommaso, Steinar Strøm
April 03, 2008
Empirical and mathematically rigorous, this book provides a study of the economics of prostitution rather than focusing on the sociological and cultural themes. Using economic tools of analysis, internationally based editors have put together a theoretically informed volume that explores the supply...
The Feminist Economics of Trade
1st Edition
Edited
By Irene van Staveren, Diane Elson, Caren Grown, Nilufer Cagatay
August 15, 2007
Unravelling the complex relationship between gender inequality and trade, this is the first book to combine the tools of economic and gender analysis to examine the relationship between international trade and gender relations. It brings together fourteen contributions from a variety of economic ...
Sexual Orientation Discrimination: An International Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Lee Badgett, Jeff Frank
April 10, 2007
Having recently authored one of the most significant books, Money, Myths and Change, in this exciting area of economics, Lee Badgett has now teamed up with Jeff Frank and a collection of international contributors to provide an analysis of sexual orientation discrimination on an international scale...
Feminist Economics and the World Bank: History, theory and policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Drucilla Barker, Edith Kuiper
January 13, 2006
The past decade has witnessed a paradigm shift at the World Bank from a focus on structural adjustment to a focus on poverty reduction. As evidenced by the Bank’s 2001 report, Engendering Development: Through Rights, Resource and Voice, an increased attention to gender issues has been an important ...
Family Time: The Social Organization of Care
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Bittman, Nancy Folbre
April 08, 2004
The time we have to care for one another, especially for our children and our elderly, is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time. In this volume, leading experts in analysis of time use from across the globe ...
Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States
1st Edition
By Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, Marilyn Power
June 28, 2002
Wage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well as economic process. This informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account. Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and...