The Strategic Silence: Gender and Economic Policy

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Bakker, Isabella, ed. 1994. The Strategic Silence: Gender and Economic Policy. London, UK; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA: Zed Books in association with the North-South Institute/l’Institut Nord-Sud.

Author: Isabella Bakker

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Summary:

Most treatments of economic change harbour a conceptual silence: the refusal to recognise that global restructuring is occurring on a gendered terrain. This book's unique contribution to the literature on restructuring and adjustment lies in its application of feminist scholarship to macroeconomics. The contributors focus on these conceptual silences, examining macroeconomic methods and policies in order to propose new research strategies to deliver a more gender-aware economics (Summary from WorldCat).

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction : engendering macro-economic policy reform in the era of global restructuring and adjustment

Isabella Bakker

2. Conceptual silences and new research strategies. Micro, meso, macro : gender and economic analysis in the context of policy reform

Diane Elson

3. Shifting the boundaries : gender and the politics of restructuring

Janine Brodie

4. Structural adjustment, demographic change and population policies : some preliminary notes

Caren Grown

5. Gender, productivity and macro-economic policies in the context of structural adjustment and change

Marjorie W. Williams

6. Macro-economics, the state and the household : lessons from the north and south. Restructuring in the fishing industry in Atlantic Canada

Martha MacDonald

7. The implications of economic restructuring for women : the Canadian situation

Marjorie Griffin Cohen

8. Gender bias and macro-economic policy : methodological comments from the Indonesian example

Barbara Evers

9. Turkish women and structural adjustment

Nilufer Cagatay

10. Mexican rural women wage earners and macro-economic policies

Antonieta Barrón

11. Women and the state : some considerations of ideological and economic frameworks in engendering policies

Haleh Afshar

12. The impact of structural adjustment policies on women : some general observations relating to conceptual bias

Swapna Mukhopadhyay.

Topics: Development, Economies, Households, International Financial Institutions, Political Economies, Privatization Regions: Americas, Central America, North America, Asia, Southeast Asia Countries: Canada, Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey

Year: 1994

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