Paradoxical Positions: The Methodological Contributions of Feminist Scholarship

Ann E. Davis

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2017, vol. 41, issue 1, 181-201

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Gender; Public/private divide; Property; Institutions; Reification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B15 B41 B50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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