Research Catalog

Title

Counting for nothing : what men value & what women are worth / Marilyn Waring.

Author

Waring, Marilyn, 1952-

Publication

Wellington, New Zealand : Allen & Unwin, Port Nicholson Press, 1988.

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Details

Description

xvii, 290 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Marilyn Waring argues that no value is placed on women's labour in the definitive system of national accounts used worldwide. She analyses the concepts underlying economic thinking from a feminist perspective, and explores the wide-ranging implications of discounting the work of half the world's population.

Uniform Title

If women counted

Alternative Title

If women counted

Subject

• Sex discrimination in national income accounting
• Women > Economic conditions

Note

• American and British editions have title: If women counted.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 280-290.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1. A Woman's Reckoning -- 2. A Calling to Account -- 3. The Boundary of Conception -- 4. Nothing Sexist Here -- 5. The Statistical Conspiracy -- 6. Villainy and Incompetentce -- 7. The Value of Death -- 8. A Value on Your Time -- 9. The Eye of the Beholder -- 10. "Your Economic Theory Makes No Sense" -- 11. If Counting was the Limit of Intelligence -- 12. Glimpsing the Whole -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

0868615714

OCLC

• 20316167
• SCSB-12518822

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library