ABSTRACT
The reason to study Economics is to avoid being duped by economists —Joan Robinson1
Chapter 1 mentioned the subject of feminist economics as a recent devel opment in the process of integrating gender analysis in the field of eco nomics. This chapter provides a more detailed historical account of the trajectory through which issues pertaining to women and gender have gradually been incorporated in the discipline. I argue that, in its initial for mulations, this integration did not incorporate feminist questions in the sense of focusing on the dynamics of unequal gender relations; the inquiry was mostly addressed to strictly economic inequalities between men and women without much regard to the wider issues of gender relations and womens subordination. The influence of feminism became more visible since the 1970s and particularly since the early 1990s.
