Review
... found Feminism, Objectivity, and Economics stimulating and intriguing.
–Industrial and Labor Relations Review , May 12, 1998
Nelson brings some of the most intriguing insights of two decades of feminism thoery to bear on Rational Man, the invisibility of women's economic production, scientistic methodologies, ineffectual standards for maximizing objectivity, and other problematic aspects of contemporary economic theorizing. This book makes an important contribution to the current flourishing of this bold new field of feminist researchers and scholars in many disciplines and in economic policy.
–Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles
Nelson brings some of the most intriguing insights of two decades of feminism thoery to bear on Rational Man, the invisibility of womens economic production, scientistic methodologies, ineffectual standards for maximizing objectivity, and other problematic aspects of contemporary economic theorizing. This book makes an important contribution to the current flourishing of this bold new field of feminist researchers and scholars in many disciplines and in economic policy.
–Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles
–Industrial and Labor Relations Review , May 12, 1998
Nelson brings some of the most intriguing insights of two decades of feminism thoery to bear on Rational Man, the invisibility of women's economic production, scientistic methodologies, ineffectual standards for maximizing objectivity, and other problematic aspects of contemporary economic theorizing. This book makes an important contribution to the current flourishing of this bold new field of feminist researchers and scholars in many disciplines and in economic policy.
–Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles
Nelson brings some of the most intriguing insights of two decades of feminism thoery to bear on Rational Man, the invisibility of womens economic production, scientistic methodologies, ineffectual standards for maximizing objectivity, and other problematic aspects of contemporary economic theorizing. This book makes an important contribution to the current flourishing of this bold new field of feminist researchers and scholars in many disciplines and in economic policy.
–Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles
Product Description
Extending a feminist analysis of the influence of masculine norms on the development of Western Science, Feminism, Objectivity and Economics evaluates the abstract core models of neoclassical economics. An outline is presented of a less gender-biased discipline which would be richer, more useful and more objective. Alternatives such as discarding all current economic practice, or setting up an economics solely for women or for "women's issues" are explicitly and emphatically rejected. The text concludes that an economics informed by feminist theory would be an improved one, for all practioners and subjects.
