ABSTRACT
Drawing on the work of historians of thought and feminist philosophers of science, this chapter argues that any type of scholarship is a cultural practice and therefore also gendered. Joanna Rostek discusses two approaches that the feminist philosophy of science has employed to counter the androcentrism of scholarship, which she terms the ‘Lost-Gems’ approach and epistemological criticism. Lastly, she considers how gender ideology has impacted the place of women in relation to the emergence of modern scholarship during the Romantic Age, i.e. the period in which the academic discipline of economics took shape. Overall, what emerges from this contextual chapter is the insight that in order to produce more gender-sensitive histories of knowledge – including economic knowledge – it is essential to revise certain received notions and practices of scholarship as well as conventional narratives of its history.
