ABSTRACT
The contributions by Solomon W.Polachek, Notburga Ott, and Lee B.Levin offer a rich context for discussing the contributions of feminist theory to economic theory. As regrettably few mainstream economists consider women and families to be interesting subjects of study, and fewer still realize that a feminist critique of standard economics even exists, each of these essays breaks in some way from standard practice. Each, however, takes a different path. To determine effectively the vigor of feminist economics, it is important to see how far these approaches can take us.
