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Paradoxical Positions: The Methodological Contributions of Feminist Scholarship

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  • Ann E. Davis

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The goal of this paper is to consider the contributions of feminist activism and interdisciplinary scholarship to economic institutional methodology. By further extending the historical institutional analysis of key categories such as the self-ownership of labour model of Locke, Smith and Marx, the “paradoxical position” of women can be avoided. A greater understanding of the reification of concepts like ‘property’ and ‘the economy’, and the role of gender in naturalizing them, will help to expand the narrow role of economics discourse in the articulation of feasible economic policies and objectives for human development.

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  • Ann E. Davis, 2017. "Paradoxical Positions: The Methodological Contributions of Feminist Scholarship," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 41(1), pages 181-201.
  • Handle: RePEc:oup:cambje:v:41:y:2017:i:1:p:181-201.
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    Keywords

    Gender; Public/private divide; Property; Institutions; Reification;
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    JEL classification:

    • B15 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary
    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
    • B50 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - General

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