May Gender and the Dismal Science

Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55004-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch

This book is a groundbreaking account of the role of women during the formative years of American economics. Blending rich historical detail with extensive empirical data, Ann Mari May examines the structural and institutional factors that excluded women, from graduate education to academic publishing to university hiring practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

May, Ann Mari

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Current Challenges, Historical Origins
2. The Political Economy of Gender in the Halls of Ivy
3. A Liminal Space: Graduate Training in the Dismal Science
4. A Membership Beyond the Professoriate
5. A Natural Constituency
6. The Trade in Words: Gender and the Monograph
7. Trouble in the Inaugural Issue of the American Economic Review: The Monograph and the Review
8. Gender, the Old Boy Network, and the Scholarly Journal
9. Not a Free Market: Women’s Employment After the Doctorate
10. A Destiny Fulfilled: Defining the Professional Economist
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Mari May is a professor of economics with courtesy appointments in history and women’s studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She was a founding member of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She is the editor of The “Woman Question” and Higher Education: Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge Production in America (2008) and coeditor of the three-volume Feminist Economics (2011).