ABSTRACT
This chapter engages with chapter 9 of Tony Lawson’s (2003a) Reorienting Economics, “Feminism, Realism, and Universalism”. The chapter appeared as a journal article in Feminist Economics, in 1999 (Lawson, 1999a). That publication provoked a remarkable set of comments by feminist economists – some of these highly critical – which were published in the same journal as a dialogue, in 2003, including two responses by Lawson. Earlier (in 1999), as well as in the set of comments in 2003, feminist philosopher Sandra Harding gave her response to Lawson’s views. In my discussion of the chapter/article on feminism and realism, I will regularly refer to this dialogue. But before doing so, let me first briefly give some indication of Lawson’s position towards feminist economics as a discipline.
