TY  - CHAP
AB  - Seven authors contributed to this well-edited volume that explores the publications, lectures, public comments, and correspondence of several well- and lesser-known classical thinkers regarding women's role in society, politics, and the economy. The dual goals of the work as stated by the editors are to “show that the classical economists did concern themselves with gender analysis” and to illustrate that the classical school developed a “sophisticated response to the question, why is it that in all human societies women have suffered a lower status than that enjoyed by men?” (p. 2). This response includes three elements: the inalienable rights of all human beings, the unchanging biological differences between men and women, and the varying historical contexts in which men and women find themselves. The intersection of these three factors affects how and why women's status changes across space and over time. The goals of the volume are met to a great extent, and anyone interested in gender scholarship and/or economic thought will find the collection interesting and long overdue.
VL  - 24 Part 1
SN  - 978-0-76231-349-5, 978-1-84950-444-7/0743-4154
DO  - 10.1016/S0743-4154(06)24003-3
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-4154(06)24003-3
AU  - Ball Jennifer
ED  - Warren J. Samuels
ED  - Jeff E. Biddle
ED  - Ross B. Emmett
PY  - 2006
Y1  - 2006/01/01
TI  - Reconsidering the place of women in classical economics
T2  - Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
T3  - Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 71
EP  - 78
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -