Women and Economics

New Historical Perspectives

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4298396
AutoresCléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche (0000-0001-7996-0749, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0DG, UK ([email protected]), autor de correspondencia), Evelyn L Forget (0000-0001-6169-995X, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, 750 Bannatyne Ave., Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W3 ([email protected]), autor de correspondencia), John Singleton (0000-0002-9286-5559, University of Rochester, autor de correspondencia), John D Singleton (Department of Economics, University of Rochester, 280 Hutchinson Road, Box 270156, Rochester, NY 14627 ([email protected]))
Año2022
Volumen54
NúmeroS1
Páginas1-15
Fecha de publicación2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory of Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-2702 • E-ISSN: 1527-1919
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00182702-10085587
OpenAlexW4291000374
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas27

This essay is the introduction to the 2022 supplemental issue of History of Political Economy, titled Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives. We first reflect on the historiography of economics and the relative absence of women and gender in the mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the history of women and economics are delineated: making visible women economists, outlining the impact of including women in a broader narrative about economics, and analyzing gender metaphors in economic thought. We then preview and describe the nine contributions included in the volume. In the last section, we consider what is next for this research agenda, arguing that there are two important challenges to historians of economics. The first challenge concerns the consequences of delegating women and gender to a separate history. The second challenge concerns the "silences" of unwritten, undeveloped, and unpreserved work in the history of economics and how the community engaged with the past of economics should reflect on these

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