Handbook of Research on Gender and Economic Life

by Deborah M. Figart and Tonia L Warnecke

Book Overview

The excellent list of themes and chapters in this volume reflects the maturity reached by feminist economics in its different dimensions. Based on the notion of social provisioning for all as the basic objective of economics, they represent a challenge to conventional economic thought and they show the importance of understanding theory, institutions, empirical work, and policy from a gender perspective. The global perspective provided through themes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782547495
• ISBN13: 9781782547495
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.