The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics - Paperback

by Günseli Berik (Editor), Ebru Kongar (Editor)

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the contributions of feminist economics to the discipline of economics and beyond. Each chapter situates the topic within the history of the field, reflects upon current debates, and looks forward to identify cutting-edge research.

Author Biography

Günseli Berik is Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, USA. Her research and teaching are in the fields of development economics, gender and development, feminist economics, and political economy of ethnicity, gender, and class. Her latest book is Gender, Development, Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered (2016), coauthored with Lourdes Benería and Maria Floro. She served as Editor of Feminist Economics from 2010 to 2017 and as consultant for the ILO, UNDP, UNRISD, UN Women, and the World Bank. Recently, she worked with the UNDP and UN Women in the development of new gender equality and women's empowerment indices.

Ebru Kongar is Professor of Economics at Dickinson College, USA. Her research focuses on the gendered time-use and labor market outcomes of macroeconomic developments, such as deindustrialization, offshoring, and the Great Recession in the US economy. She is Associate Editor of Feminist Economics and Research Associate at the Gender Equality and the Economy Program of Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. Her latest book is Gender and Time Use in a Global Context (2017), co-edited with Rachel Connelly.