Women and Economics

New Historical Perspectives

Bibliographic Data

ID4298396
AuthorsCléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche (0000-0001-7996-0749, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0DG, UK ([email protected]), corresponding author), Evelyn L Forget (0000-0001-6169-995X, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, 750 Bannatyne Ave., Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W3 ([email protected]), corresponding author), John Singleton (0000-0002-9286-5559, University of Rochester, corresponding author), John D Singleton (Department of Economics, University of Rochester, 280 Hutchinson Road, Box 270156, Rochester, NY 14627 ([email protected]))
Year2022
Volume54
IssueS1
Pages1-15
Publication date2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory of Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2702 • E-ISSN: 1527-1919
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00182702-10085587
OpenAlexW4291000374
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited27

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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