ABSTRACT
This chapter maps onto "the history of economics" certain insights that feminist thought has produced into the gendered construction of "science" in general, and of economics in particular. A consideration of patriarchy, of its historical perdurance as well as of the specific form it takes in the "modern" age, can help us better understand certain key moments of the history of economics. It can, in particular, better explain its birth in the form of Classical Political Economy (henceforth CPE) and its eventual transformation into neoclassicism - better, that is, than we have so far been able to "explain" by relying on existing approaches to the history of economic thought.
