The Strategic Silence
Gender and Economic Policy
Published on 1. January 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
182 pages
978-1-85649-262-1 (ISBN)
Description
Most treatments of economic change harbour a conceptual silence: the refusal to recognise that global restructuring is occurring on a gendered terrain.
This book's unique contribution to the literature on restructuring and adjustment lies in its application of feminist scholarship to macroeconomics.
The contributors focus on these conceptual silences, examining macroeconomic methods and policies in order to propose new research strategies to deliver a more gender-aware economics.
This book's unique contribution to the literature on restructuring and adjustment lies in its application of feminist scholarship to macroeconomics.
The contributors focus on these conceptual silences, examining macroeconomic methods and policies in order to propose new research strategies to deliver a more gender-aware economics.
Reviews / Votes
'The artful combination of conceptual essays and specific case studies makes this book an excellent resource from both a methodological and a practical viewpoint.'Julie A. Nelson, University of California, Davis
'Offers a much needed corrective to how we examine and interpret the complex issues which frame the relationship between gender and economic policy.'
Shelley Feldman, director of the Program on Gender and Global Change, Cornell University
'Fills a very important gap in the field of gender and development.'
Naila Kabeer, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85649-262-1 (9781856492621)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Isabella Bakker is a political economist at York University, Canada.
Content
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface - Maureen O'Neil
1. Introduction: Engendering Macro-economic Policy Reform in the Era of Global Restructuring and Adjustment - Isabella Bakker
Part I: Conceptual Silences and New Research Strategies
2. Micro, Meso, Macro: Gender and Economic Analysis in the Context of Policy Reform - Diane Elson
3. Shifting the Boundaries: Gender and the Politics of Restructuring - Janine Brodie
4. Structural Adjustment, Demographic Change and Population Policies: Some Preliminary Notes - Caren Grown
5. Gender, Productivity and Macro-economic Policies in the Context of Structural Adjustment and Change - Marjorie W. Williams
Part II: Macro-economics, the State and the Household: Lessons from the North and South
6. Restructuring in the Fishing Industry in Atlantic Canada - Martha MacDonald
7. The Implications of Economic Restructuring for Women: The Canadian Situation - Marjorie Griffin Cohen
8. Gender Bias and Macro-economic Policy: Methodological Comments from the Indonesian Example - Barbara Evers
9. Turkish Women and Structural Adjustment - Nilufer Cagatay
10. Mexican Rural Women Wage Earners and Macro-economic Policies - Antonieta Barron
11. Women and the State: Some Considerations of Ideological and Economic Frameworks in Engendering Policies - Haleh Afshar
12. The Impact of Structural Adjustment Policies on Women: Some General Observations Relating to Conceptual Bias - Swapna Mukhopadhyay
Index
Acknowledgements
Preface - Maureen O'Neil
1. Introduction: Engendering Macro-economic Policy Reform in the Era of Global Restructuring and Adjustment - Isabella Bakker
Part I: Conceptual Silences and New Research Strategies
2. Micro, Meso, Macro: Gender and Economic Analysis in the Context of Policy Reform - Diane Elson
3. Shifting the Boundaries: Gender and the Politics of Restructuring - Janine Brodie
4. Structural Adjustment, Demographic Change and Population Policies: Some Preliminary Notes - Caren Grown
5. Gender, Productivity and Macro-economic Policies in the Context of Structural Adjustment and Change - Marjorie W. Williams
Part II: Macro-economics, the State and the Household: Lessons from the North and South
6. Restructuring in the Fishing Industry in Atlantic Canada - Martha MacDonald
7. The Implications of Economic Restructuring for Women: The Canadian Situation - Marjorie Griffin Cohen
8. Gender Bias and Macro-economic Policy: Methodological Comments from the Indonesian Example - Barbara Evers
9. Turkish Women and Structural Adjustment - Nilufer Cagatay
10. Mexican Rural Women Wage Earners and Macro-economic Policies - Antonieta Barron
11. Women and the State: Some Considerations of Ideological and Economic Frameworks in Engendering Policies - Haleh Afshar
12. The Impact of Structural Adjustment Policies on Women: Some General Observations Relating to Conceptual Bias - Swapna Mukhopadhyay
Index