Being a heterodox economist as a feminist one

Marcella Corsi

Chapter 3 in The Elgar Companion to Women and Heterodox Economics, 2025, pp 53-65 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Paraphrasing Simone de Beauvoir's famous quotation, I was not born, but rather became, a feminist economist. It took me time to include gender in my research, and I managed to do so, thanks to an intricate net of connections, by trying, together with other colleagues, to reframe the conceptual framework of economic analysis from a feminist perspective, as part of a deep heterodox critique of Neoclassical Economics. In this chapter, I describe how Feminist Economics became part of my being a heterodox economist, by concentrating on three different aspects of my research: the relevance of the history of economic ideas, the thinking about data informed by feminism, and the teaching of heterodox economics from a feminist perspective. In doing this, I present some of my heroines—Ada Lovelace Byron and Harriet Taylor Mill—and stress the relevance of connecting economics with other disciplines, for giving visibility to women as both economic agents and economists.

Keywords: Data; Feminist; Heterodox; History; Pedagogy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035329304
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