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Article: Feminist Economics: Interrogating the Masculinity of Rational Economic Man.(Review)
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Gillian J. Hewitson, Feminist Economics: Interrogating the Masculinity of Rational Economic Man, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 1999.
In the weeks leading up to the 2001 Federal Budget, it was a pleasure to step back from the immediate political process to read a scholarly critique of neo-classical economics that underpins the economic rationalism endemic to our times. Moreover, in the wake of the M1 protests around Australia, this book helps illuminate the problematic of capital's late twentieth-century globalising discourse.
Gail Hewitson's book, Feminist Economics, provides an introduction to the field of feminist economics, together with a critique of the ...