Malthus and gender
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20437677 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Bashford (0000-0003-1703-5843, Laureate Centre for History and Population University of New South Wales Kensington New South Wales Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 198-210 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-8992 • E-ISSN: 1467-8446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/aehr.12250 |
| OpenAlex | W4297494371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
This article re‐reads Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population for his explicit discussion of men and women, masculinity and femininity. A feminist reading is possible, but not undertaken here. Rather, the purpose is simply to demonstrate how ‘gender’ was Malthus's own object of inquiry. Historical actors, perhaps especially economic thinkers, often considered gender far more fully and explicitly than almost all subsequent analysts of them. It therefore remains not just insufficient, but empirically erroneous not to inquire into how ‘men’ and ‘women’ were considered, constructed, instructed, symbolised or valued by the historical actors we study, including those in the political economy canon
Femininity · Linguistics · Masculinity · Object (grammar) · Political science · Politics · Population · Reading (process) · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Legal and Social Philosophy · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |