Decolonizing Feminist Economics

Interrogating the Women’s Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality Development Framework

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ID12426344
AuthorsGisela Carrasco Miró (0000-0001-7626-7754, Utrecht University, corresponding author), Gisela Carrasco-Miró (Utrecht University Muntstraat 2a Utrecht 3512EV, The Netherlands)
Year2020
Volume29
Issue3
Pages771-789
Publication date2020-09-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/sp/jxaa033
OpenAlexW3107431600
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited16

This article urges attention be paid to the project of decolonizing feminist development economics as a way to reimagine feminist economics and politics. Drawing on economic patterns within contemporary Mesoamerica, this article exposes modernist assumptions within development discourse on women’s economic empowerment and their contemporary colonial forms, and expands the notion of economy and female empowerment beyond the scope of capitalist modernity. Further to this, and using the experience of working as a feminist economist in an international development organization in Guatemala, this article discusses feminist dilemmas in development that complicate current approaches to women’s economic empowerment and gender equality

Colonialism · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Feminism · Feminist philosophy · Feminist theory · Modernity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Religion, Society, and Development · Gender Studies · Law

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