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The status of women in classical economic thought
- Title
- The status of women in classical economic thought / edited by Robert Dimand and Chris Nyland.
- Publication
- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., ©2003.
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- Description
- ix, 315 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book explores how the classical economists explained the status of women in society. As the essays show, the focus of the classical school was not nearly as limited to the activities of men as conventional wisdom has supposed. Chris Nyland from Monash University.
- Subject
- Women > Economic conditions
- Women > Social conditions
- Sex role > Economic aspects
- Classical school of economics
- Economics > History
- Economics
- Vrouwen
- Sociale status
- Economische situatie
- Klassieke school (Economie)
- Gender identity > Economic aspects
- Femme
- Condition sociale
- Condition économique
- Statut social
- Rôle selon le sexe
- Pensée économique
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Gender relations and classical economics : the evolution of a tradition / Chris Nyland and Robert Dimand -- Poulain de la Barre and the rationalist analysis of the status of women ; John Locke, equality of rights and diversity of attributes ; Biology and environment : Montesquieu's relativist analysis of gender behaviour ; Adam Smith, stage theory and the status of women ; Women's progress and 'the end of history' / Chris Nyland -- Condorcet and equality of the sexes : one of many fronts for a great fighter for liberty of the eighteenth century / Peter Groenewegen -- Cultivating sympathy : Sophie Condorcet's letters on sympathy / Evelyn L. Forget -- 'Let there be no distinction between the sexes' : Jeremy Bentham on the status of women / Annie L. Cot -- An eighteenth-century English feminist response to political economy : Priscilla Wakefield's Reflections (1798) / Robert Dimand -- The market for virtue : Jean-Baptiste Say on women in the economy and society / Evelyn L. Forget -- Women in Nassau Senior's economic thought / Robert Dimand -- William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler : a marriage of minds on Jeremy Bentham' doorstep / Chris Nyland and Tom Heenan -- Taking Harriet Martineau's economics seriously / David M. Levy -- John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor and French social theory / Evelyn L. Forget.
- ISBN
- 1840644788
- 9781840644784
- LCCN
- 2003061747
- OCLC
- ocm52887107
- 52887107
- SCSB-1322951
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library