Feminism and Economics

Nelson, Julie A.

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511819025.031

Cited by 44 publications

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“…Definition of economics as concerned with the realm of provisioning breaks down the usual distinction between "economic" (primarily market-oriented) activities and policies, and familial or social activities (Nelson 1995). Part of the agenda of feminist economics is to investigate "value free, politically neutral, gender blind" assumptions and values embedded in the neoclassical paradigm, particularly in those areas that cross the affective domain and bear directly on women"s lives and experiences (Lynch et al 2009: 18).…”

Section: The Significance Of Care For Economy -A Feminist Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, unpaid labour and economics

Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz

2017

Folia Oeconomica

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Unpaid labour, including care labour is mostly performed by women. Economic theories explain differences in allocation of time between women and men in various ways – neoclassical theories point to the rational choice associated with the varying efficiency of women and men both in the labour market and in the household, while heterodox theories point to the influence of norms, social values and traditions, according to which the man is the breadwinner and the woman the caregiver. Unpaid labour is often called home duties or responsibilities, and even though it is very difficult, tiring and demanding, it is not valued and respected. The main objective of this paper is to present the importance of unpaid care work in the economy and propose the reconsideration of economic policies.

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Section: The Significance Of Care For Economy -A Feminist Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, unpaid labour and economics

Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz

2017

Folia Oeconomica

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“…Feminist economics show that caring labour includes both material and social provisioning in the economy and notes that market exchange plays only one part (Hinze, 2011;Nelson, 1995).…”

Section: The Caring Economymentioning

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Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) as part of the existing care economy in Canada

Lans

2016

Geoforum

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This review paper discusses the program called Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF), in North America, as an example of a subset of the care economy in which volunteers contribute to farm care. Human care is partly direct (some childcare, kitchen duties and other housework), but mostly indirect, in that farm families get time off. This review expands on previous work that considered farms in Ontario, Canada as spaces of care and farmwomen as the carers. It critiques other research that claims WWOOFers do not replace local labor and that WWOOF represents an idealistic and ethical space potentially corrupted by tourists.

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“…For example, formal modelling (the mathematical basis of computational agent-based modelling) has been criticized by feminist economists (e.g. Nelson 1995). Barker (2003) points out that formal modelling is both the means whereby economics makes its claim to be scientific and is based on assumptions of methodological individualism and social atomism.…”

Section: E T H I C a L W O R K T H A T R E G U L A T I O N S W I L L mentioning

confidence: 99%