ABSTRACT
Unravelling the complex relationship between gender inequality and trade, this is the first book to combine the tools of economic and gender analysis to examine the relationship between international trade and gender relations.
It brings together fourteen contributions from a variety of economic perspectives, including structuralist, institutionalist, neoclassical and Post-Keynesian by a range of authors including Lourdes Benería, William Darity, Marzia Fontana and Mariama Williams to demonstrate what feminist economics has contributed to the analysis of international trade, through theoretical modelling, econometric analysis and policy-oriented contributions. It includes evidence from industrialized, semi-industrialized, and agrarian economies, using country case studies and cross-country analysis.
Arguing that trade expansion and reduction of gender inequality can be combined, but only if an appropriate mix and sequence of trade and other economic policies is implemented, this book is key reading for all students of international economics, gender and cultural studies and politics and international relations, amongst other disciplines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|42 pages
Trade and gender
part II|62 pages
Impacts of gender inequality on trade
chapter 4|23 pages
Gender, trade, and development
part III|122 pages
Impacts of trade on gender inequality
chapter 7|24 pages
Modeling the effects of trade on women: at work and at home
chapter 9|21 pages
Export-led industrialization and gender differences in job creation and destruction
chapter 10|30 pages
Gender segregation and gender bias in manufacturing trade expansion
chapter 11|22 pages
Importing equality or exporting jobs?
part IV|79 pages
Feminist approaches to trade policy