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1. Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective

   Edited by Brigitte Young, Isabella Bakker, Diane Elson

   Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

   Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective brings together feminist economists and feminist political economists from different countries located in North America and Europe to analyze the ‘strategic silence’ about gender in fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation....

   Published July 31st 2011 by Routledge
2. Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment

   Edited by Leah F. Vosko, Martha MacDonald, Iain Campbell

   Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

   Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and...

   Published July 21st 2009 by Routledge
3. Gender and Chinese Development

   Towards an Equitable Society

   By Lanyan Chen

   Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

   This book takes a look beneath the surface of this "miracle growth", to explore the political economy of this process. Beyond the superficial macroeconomics of high growth rates, increasing GDP per capita and high trade volume, the book looks at what is happening to the very socioeconomic and...

   Published July 28th 2008 by Routledge
4. Sex Markets

   A Denied Industry

   By Marina Della Giusta, Maria Di Tommaso, Steinar Strøm

   Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

   Empirical and mathematically rigorous, this book provides a study of the economics of prostitution rather than focusing on the sociological and cultural themes. Using economic tools of analysis, internationally based editors have put together a theoretically informed volume that explores the supply...

   Published March 18th 2008 by Routledge
5. The Feminist Economics of Trade

   Edited by Irene van Staveren, Diane Elson, Caren Grown, Nilufer Cagatay

   Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

   Unravelling the complex relationship between gender inequality and trade, this is the first book to combine the tools of economic and gender analysis to examine the relationship between international trade and gender relations. It brings together fourteen contributions from a variety of economic...

   Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge
6. Sexual Orientation Discrimination

   An International Perspective

   Edited by Lee Badgett, Jeff Frank

   Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

   Having recently authored one of the most significant books, Money, Myths and Change, in this exciting area of economics, Lee Badgett has now teamed up with Jeff Frank and a collection of international contributors to provide an analysis of sexual orientation discrimination on an international scale...

   Published February 5th 2007 by Routledge
7. Feminist Economics and the World Bank

   History, theory and policy

   Edited by Drucilla Barker, Edith Kuiper

   Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

   The past decade has witnessed a paradigm shift at the World Bank from a focus on structural adjustment to a focus on poverty reduction. As evidenced by the Bank’s 2001 report, Engendering Development: Through Rights, Resource and Voice, an increased attention to gender issues has been an important...

   Published December 14th 2005 by Routledge
8. Family Time

   The Social Organization of Care

   Edited by Michael Bittman, Nancy Folbre

   Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

   The time we have to care for one another, especially for our children and our elderly, is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time. In this volume, leading experts in analysis of time use from across the globe...

   Published February 25th 2004 by Routledge
9. Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States

   By Deborah M. Figart, Ellen Mutari, Marilyn Power

   Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

   Wage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well as economic process. This informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account. Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and...

   Published May 22nd 2002 by Routledge