Women's Economy Reading List
Hilary 2013
Instructor: Linda Scott
Meeting time and Place: Wednesdays, 5 to 7 pm, Seminar Room 13, Said School
Week 1
Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris (2003), “Introduction” and “From Traditional Roles
Toward Gender Equality,” Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the
World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-28, 29-48.
Gayle Rubin (1975), “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex," in
Rayna Reiter, ed., Toward an Anthropology of Women, New York: Monthly Review Press.
Heidi Hartmann (2003), “The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism,” in The
Feminist Theory Reader, eds. McCann and Kim, London: Routledge, 206-221.
Linda Scott (2000), “Market Feminism: The Case for a Paradigm Shift,” Marketing and
Feminism, eds. Catterall, Maclaran, and Stevens, London: Routledge, 16-38.
Rachel C. Loftspring (2007), “Inheritance Rights in Uganda,” University of Pennsylvania
International Law Review, Vol. 29, 243-281.
Eiman Zein-Elabdin (2003), “The Difficulty of a Feminist Economics,” Toward a Feminist
Philosophy of Economics, Ed. D. Barker and E. Kuiper, Routledge: London, 321-335.
Lourdes Beneria (2011), “Capitalism and Socialism: Some Feminist Questions,” Women,
Gender, and Development Reader, Second Edition, 372-379.
Marianne Ferber and Julie A. Nelson, (1993), “Introduction: The Social Construction of
Economics and the Social Construction of Gender,” Beyond Economic Man, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1-22.
Simone de Beauvoir (1952), “Introduction” and “The Point of View of Historical
Materialism,” The Second Sex, Trans. Parshley, any edition, NY: Vintage, approximately xvxxxiv and 58-68.
Week 2
Malcolm Potts and Thomas Hayden (2008), “Sex and Violence,” Sex and War, Dallas:
Benbella Books, 1-16.
Frederick Engels (1884), “The Family,” Chapter II in The Origin of the Family, Private
Property, and the State, any edition.
Alison M. Jaggar (1983), “Radical Feminism and Human Nature,” Chapter 5, Feminist
Politics and Human Nature, New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 83-122.
Simone de Beauvoir (1952), “Part II: History,” The Second Sex, Trans. Parshley, any edition,
NY: Vintage, approx. 69-155.
Gerda Lerner (1986), The Creation of Patriarchy, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Week 3
Paula England (1993), “The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical
Assumptions,” Beyond Economic Man, eds. Ferber and Nelson, Chicago: University of
Chicago, 37-53.
Alison M. Jaggar (1983), “Liberal Feminism and Human Nature,” Chapter 3, Feminist Politics
and Human Nature, New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 27-50.
Michele A. Pujol (2003), “Into the Margins!” Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics, Ed.
D. Barker and E. Kuiper, Routledge: London, 22-35.
Julie Nelson (1993), “The Study of Choice or the Study of Provisioning? Gender and the
Definition of Economics,” Beyond Economic Man, Eds. Ferber and Nelso, Chicago: University
of Chicago, 23-36.
Nancy Folbre (2009), Greed, Lust, and Gender, Oxford: OUP.
Week 4
Marilyn Power, Ellen Mutari, and Deborah M. Figart (2003), “Beyond Markets: Wage
Setting and The Methodology of Feminist Political Economy,” Toward a Feminist Philosophy
of Economics, Ed. D. Barker and E. Kuiper, Routledge: London, 70-85.
Alison M. Jaggar (1983), “Traditional Marxism and Human Nature,” Chapter 4, Feminist
Politics and Human Nature, New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 51-82.
Michael Goldberg (2000), “Breaking New Ground,” No Small Courage: A History of Women
in the United States, Oxford: OUP, 179-236.
Elson, Diane and Ruth Pearson, “The Subordination of Women and the Internationalization
of Factory Production,” Women, Gender, and Development Reader, Second Editon, N.
Visvanathan, L. Duggan, N. Wiegersma, and L. Nisonoft, eds., NY: Palgrave, 212-224.
Fernandez-Kelly, Maria Patricia (1997, 2011), “Maquiladoras: The View from the Inside,”
The Women, Gender, and Devlopment Reader, 2nd Edition, N. Visvanathan, L. Dugga, N.
Wiegersma, and L. Nisonoft, New York: Palgrave, 212-224.
Elizabeth Wayland Barber (1996), Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years, London:
WW Norton.
Week 5
Alison M. Jaggar (1983), “Socialist Feminism and Human Nature,” Chapter 4, Feminist
Politics and Human Nature, New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 123-168.
Kevin Bales (1999), “The New Slavery” and “Thailand: Because She Looks Like a Child,”
Disposable People, London: University of California Press, 1-33, 34-80.
Martha C Nussbaum (1999), Sex and Social Justice, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Week 6
Leta Hollingsworth (1916), "Social devices for impelling women to bear and rear children"
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 22, No. 1. Reprinted in: POPULATION AND
DEVELOPMENT REVIEW. 2000 Jun; 26(2): 353-63.
Susan Strasser (1982), “Fetch a Pail of Water,” “Blue Monday,” “A Stitch in Time,” Never
Done: A History of American Housework, New York: Henry Holt, 85-103, 104-124, 125-144.
Betty Friedan (1963), “The Problem that Has No Name” and “The Sexual Sell,” The Feminine
Mystique, any edition, approximately 5-20 and 166-189.
Michael J. Silverstein and Kate Sayre (2009), “The Female Economy,” Harvard Business
Review, September, 2-9.
Badinter, Elisabeth (2010), “Wombs on Strike,” The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood
Undermines the Status of Women, NY: H. Holt, 131-153.
Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Hochschild (1997, 2011), “Global Woman,” Women, Gender,
and Development Reader, 2nd Edition, N. Visvanathan, L. Dugga, N. Wiegersma, and L.
Nisonoft, New York: Palgrave 237-244.
Jessica Valenti (2012), “Introduction,” “Giving Up Parenthood,” “Smart Women Don’t Have
Kids,” Why Have Kids? A New Mom Exposes the Truth about Parenting and Happiness,
Amazon publishing, ix-xx, 95-108, 121-133.
Rosemary Crompton (2006), Employment and the Family, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Week 7
Karen Hughes (2005), “Women’s Paths into Self-Employment and Small Business,” :”’I Love
What I Do’: Creation of Job Satisfaction and Meaningful Work,” “Players or Paupers?
Income, Job Security, and Negotiation of Risk,” Female Enterprise in the New Economy,
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 41-74, 75-111, 112-147.
Nancy Carter and Christine Silva (2010), “Women in Management: Delusions of Progress,
Harvard Business Review, March.
Sarah Rutherford (2011), Women's Work, Men's Cultures, New York: Palgrave
MacMillan.
Week 8
Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid (2011), “Part One: The Changing Face of Talent,”
Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets, Boston: Harvard Business Review Press,
15-56.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Part One, Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the
Road to Success, Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 3-114.
Hannah Rosin (2012), The End of Men, New York: Viking.