ABSTRACT
Feminist economics is concerned with the many ways in which economic life is shaped by gender as well as other significant categories of identity. Its goal is to reveal the gender-blindness of existing economic analysis, and to bring into the debate issues which have previously been ignored. Developing alternative theories to address these issues has revealed that the existing tools of economic analysis do not lend themselves well to the kinds of questions that feminist economists address. The attempt to explain the impact of gender on the economy thus often goes hand in hand with a theoretical inquiry into the gendered nature of these tools.3
