ABSTRACT
Feminist economists and other heterodox economists have much to teach each other. Sharing a critical perspective toward mainstream theoretical constructs, both treat economics as a social practice with concrete historical origins rather than as immutable laws of nature awaiting the scientist’s gaze. Most political economists would share the sentiment offered by two feminist economists that “If we instead recognize that the discipline we call economics has been developed by particular human actors, it is hard to see how it could fail to be critically influenced by … the social, cultural, economic, and political milieu in which it has been created” (Ferber and Nelson 1993, 1). Several feminist economists have taken strong positions regarding the affinity between feminism and particular schools of heterodoxy such as Marxism, radical institutionalism, or social economics (see, for example, Waller and Jennings 1990; Emami 1993; Whalen and Whalen 1994; Matthaei 1996). However, there is no unified perspective on the relationship between feminist economics and other heterodox schools of economic thought.
