Towards a Gendered Political Economy

DIANE ELSON Professor of Development Studies, University of Manchester JEAN GARDINER Senior Lecturer of Continuing Education, University of Leeds JANE HUMPHRIES Reader in Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford RUTH LISTER Professor Social Policy, Loughborough University MAXINE POLYNEUX Senior Lecturer, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London RUTH PEARSON Professor of Women and Development, Institute for Social Studies, The Hague NICOLA PIPER Researcher, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen CAROL SMART Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds SYLVIA WALBY Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds

This collection sets out how a gendered approach to political economy can help us understand the inherently gendered structures that characterise our society, and provide the foundation for a truly interdisciplinary social science.This collection sets out how a gendered approach to political economy can help us understand the inherently gendered structures that characterise our society, and provide the foundation for a truly interdisciplinary social science. It provides a comprehensive coverage of gendered political economy - what it is, where it is and, perhaps more importantly, how it should develop. The twelve chapters that make up this volume combine the development of a theoretical framework with empirical examples, which illustrate the core concerns of gendered political economy.