ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief introduction to degrowth scholarship, reviews the key contributions of feminist economics to degrowth, highlights the implications of closer engagement with degrowth for feminist economics, and suggests steps toward a common research agenda. In line with the focus of this Handbook, it concentrates on the growth-critical parts of feminist economics and identifies two interlinked strands of discussion as especially relevant to the degrowth discourse, namely the feminist economics critique of neoclassical economics and feminist economics contributions to ecological economics. Feminist theories of the economy display a wide range of sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory positions with respect to degrowth, making it self-evident that not all feminisms are equally compatible with degrowth ideas. There are three foundational debates in the feminist economics critique of neoclassical economics that deserve particular attention in degrowth, namely the feminist critique of the gross domestic product, the narrow concept of work, and the homo economicus.
