Book CelebrationJune 24, 2021INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION F O R F E M I N I S T E C O N O M I C S

Gamze Çavdar & Yavuz YaşarWomen in Turkey: Silent Consensus in the Age of Neoliberalism and Islamic ConservatismRoutledge, December 2020

The Prize Committee found this winning book to be highly original in its treatment of the relationship between neoliberalism, religiously structured patriarchy, and gender in Turkey.

The authors trace the evolution of Islamist conservative thought, which had initially stood in contradiction to neoliberal policies and values, but has now evolved to incorporate neoliberal values, with deep negative impacts on education, employment and health inequality by gender.

Winner 2021 Suraj Mal and

Shyama Devi Agarwal Book Prize

Stephanie BarrientosGender and Work in Global Value Chains: Capturing the GainsCambridge University Press, April 2019

The Prize Committee found this book to be an important contribution to our understanding of the evolving global production system that is based on global value chains.

Building on detailed empirical work in a variety of industries and countries, Barrientos sheds light on how the new global production system has shaped gendered patterns of work and pay, demonstrating the roadblocks to gender equality as well as possibilities for women’s economic empowerment.

Honorable Mention2021 Suraj Mal and

Shyama Devi Agarwal Book Prize

Astrid Agenjo CalderónFeminist Political Economy:Sustainability of Life and Global EconomyCatarata y Fuhem-Ecosocial, February 2020

Feminist Political Economy is a critical and alternative approach to the conventional economy. It is focused on revealing the structural deficiencies of a capitalist, heteropatriarchal and racist system, which has endangered the sustainability of life and aggravated the capital-life conflict. This book applies this theoretical framework to the analysis of various trends in theworld economy.

Tae Hee HongWomen and Economy: Living as a Female Homo Economicus in KoreaPakyoungsa, January 2020

Why are women poorer and more likely to be employed in low-wage work and caring work? To answer these questions, this book looks at Korean women as an example of how biological sex determined by fate plays a role in social gender and what economic consequences this role brings about.

This book was selected as an Outstanding Book by the National Academyof Sciences, Republic of Korea in 2020.

Mary E. JohnChild Marriage in an International Frame:A Feminist Review from IndiaRoutledge, April 2021

Refusing simplistic labels like “harmful practice”, this book explores child marriage as a social and feminist issue in India across different domains. It critically reviews a wide range of historical, demographic, and legal scholarship on the subject. Major concepts discussed are childhood, adolescence, the girl, and the critical concept of compulsory marriage is introduced.

Meena Gopal & Mary E. JohnWomen in the Worlds of Labour: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional PerspectivesOrient BlackSwan, February 2021

This is an edited volume comprising 19 essays with an introduction that establishes this volume as breaking down existing silos for the study of women’s work and labor in the Indian context. Essays span historical and contemporary time periods, and address themselves to caste, class, disability and queer perspectives.

Bina AgarwalGender Inequalities in Developing Economies(Italian Translation)il Mulino, Milan, April 2021

This compendium, translated in Italian, contains a selection of Bina Agarwal’s writings on agriculture, property and the environment. Methodologically innovative, these lucidly written essays challenge standard economic assumptions from a gender perspective. They provide original insights on a wide range of theoretical, empirical and policy issues of continuing importance in current debates.

Shirlena Huang & Kanchana N. RuwanpuraHandbook on Gender in AsiaEdward Elgar, July 2020

The Handbook on Gender in Asia critically examines five broad themes of significance to Asia: the ‘Theory and Practice’ of researching in Asia; ‘Gender, Ageing and Health’; ‘Gender and Labour’; ‘Gendered Migrations and Mobilities’; and ‘Gender at the Margins’. Each chapter provides an overview of the key intellectual developments on the issue under discussion, as well as empirical examples.

Mariacristina Rossi & Eva SierminskaWealth and Homeownership:Women, Men and FamiliesSpringer, October 2018

In almost every country, wealth is predominantly comprised by housing equity, but what are the possible risks and how does wealth accumulation vary across countries? In this timely book, by providing a conceptual framework to insert homeownership and housing decisions within an economic rationale, the authors analyze the complex relationship between gender, family types, wealth and homeownership.

Alejandra Santillana, Karla Vizuete, Paula Serrano & Nora Fernández Mora

Economy to Change It All:Feminism, Work and Dignified LifeFES-ILDIS Ecuador/PUCE Ecuador, March 2021

This book proposes a comprehensive perspective of the economy, which restores the dynamics and relationship between salaried and unpaid work, and studies the care economy and the power relations of patriarchy, capitalism and coloniality, as well as the ecological limits.

Kruskaya Hidalgo Cordero & Carolina Salazar DazaLabor Precarity on Digital Platforms:A Reading from Latin AmericaFriedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, December 2020

This book illustrates the impacts of platform economies and digital work in Latin America. Throughout the book, the struggles of digital workers in eight countries in the region are collected: Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile.

Elizabeth Allgoewer, Ute Lampalzer, Sünje Lorenzen, Sophia Schulze Schleithoff & Nicole Graf

Early Female Economists in Germany:A Search for CluesMetropolis, December 2018

The scientific contributions of early female economists of Germany, as well as their roles in both public life and at universities, have so far received little attention. This book presents the lives and work of five economists who opened new paths in the discipline and thus paved the way for the next generation of female students and researchers.

Carmen Diana Deere (Editor)

A Home of One’s Own? The Economic Autonomy of Women in Ecuador (Spanish Translation)FLACSO Ecuador & Abya-Yala, June 2021

This anthology contains the Spanish translation of nine journal articles published by the Gender Asset Project. The first part focuses on how women acquire assets, with comparative essays on Ecuador, Ghana and India, as well as others on Ecuador. The second highlights the association between women’s asset ownership and their bargaining power, specifically, decision-making and intimate partner violence.

Ebru IşikWomen’s Labor: An Epistemological Analysis on the Basis of Different Understandings of Feminism and Feminist EconomicsYetkin Yayınevi, May 2020

The purpose of this study is to reveal the epistemological foundations of women’s labor in the context of feminisms and feminist economics. On this basis, firstly, the conceptual and theoretical background of the conceptualizations of women’s labor are put forward. Afterwards, feminist economics and women’s labor are comprehensively discussed.

Joyce JacobsenAdvanced Introduction to Feminist EconomicsEdward Elgar, February 2021

A short overview of the field of feminist economics that highlights the many topics that have been analyzed to date, for use to help educate our students, economist colleagues, and our colleagues in other fields. This book is “advanced” only in the sense that it presupposes the reader has an understanding of basic economic terms from an introductory course.

Hélène PérivierL’économie FéministePresses de Sciences Po, November 2020

Economics has been built by men to be at the service of a society ruled by men. It is also the social science where the proportion of women is the lowest, with 25%. Prefaced by Thomas Piketty, this book unveils the apparent neutrality of some analytical frames. It sheds light on how feminism andeconomics can enrich one another.

Nancy FolbreThe Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems:An Intersectional Political EconomyVerso, February 2021

The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems examines why care work is generally unrewarded in a market economy, calling attention to the non-market processes of childbearing, childrearing and the care of other dependents, the inheritance of assets, and the use of force and violence to appropriate both physical and human resources.

Jayati Ghosh, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Hameda Deedat, Jessica Vechbanyongratana, Dzodzi Tsikata & Mouna Cherkaoui

Informal Women Workers in the Global South:Policies and Practices for the Formalization of Women’s Employment in Developing EconomiesRoutledge (IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics), January 2021

This book examines the varying trajectories of formalization and their impact on women workers in five developing countries and describes how formalization policies that do not factor in the specific conditions and constraints of women workers fail in their aims and even be counterproductive.

Bronwyn WinterThe Political Economy of Same-Sex MarriageRoutledge, January 2021

This book focuses on processes of institutionalization of same-sex marriage and so-called ‘rainbow families’ within (neo)liberal capitalist democracies. It examines how states and markets appropriate same-sex marriage and family to enhance their own political and symbolic capital, consolidating power and profit within existing systems of gendered and raced socioeconomic stratification.

Govind Kelkar & Dev NathanWitch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy, and Structural TransformationCambridge University Press, May 2020

This book brings in field data from India and south-east Asia and incorporates a large body of works on witch hunts across geographies and histories. Witch hunts is a scholarly analysis of the human rights violation of women and its correction through changes in beliefs, knowledge practices and adaptation in structural transformation.

Drucilla K. Barker, Suzanne Bergeron & Susan F. Feiner

Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization (Second Edition)University of Michigan Press, February 2021

With all new and updated chapters, the second edition of Liberating Economics takes an interdisciplinary and intersectional feminist approach to understanding the economic processes that shape households, labor markets, globalization, and human well-being. Throughout, the authors offer alternative ways of thinking about and organizing economies outside of the neoliberal frame.

Pedro AlarcónThe Ecuadorian Oil Era: Nature, Rent, and the StateNomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden (Germany), January 2021

By focusing on a half-century of recent Latin American economic history, this book presents a multidisciplinary approach to examining the relentless pursuit of development in the Global South and aims to revitalize the academic debate on whether having abundant natural resources is a blessing or a curse.

Irene van StaverenAlternative Ideas from 10 (Almost) Forgotten EconomistsPalgrave Macmillan, March 2021

The book presents key ideas of 10 economists, including two women (Barbara Bergmann and Joan Robinson), as feasible responses to the crises we experience (aftermath of the 2007 financial crisis and remaining financial instability, the COVID-19 crisis and the climate crisis). Together, the key ideas help to build a post capitalist economics that we need in order to overcome the three crises.

Esther Dweck, Pedro Rossi & Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira

Post-Pandemic Economy: Dismantling the Myths of Fiscal Austerity and Building a New Economic ParadigmAutonomia Literária, November 2020

This book, in Portuguese, is a contribution to the Brazilian public debate. It discusses structural reforms and the necessity of a new approach to strengthen social policy. This book is available for download online and can also be ordered from the publisher.

Marquita WalkerFemale Voices from the Worksite: The Impact of Hidden Bias AgainstWorking Women Across the GlobeLexington Books, November 2020

This collection analyzes women’s narratives on the workplace. These narratives speak to the daily struggles women face in the workforce, such as inflexible and long work hours, masculine workplace cultures, employers’ stereotypical attitudes, and the absence of work-life balance initiatives.

Swarna Sadasivam Vepa & Brinda Viswanathan

Undernutrition, Agriculture and Public Provisioning: The Impact on Women and Children in IndiaRoutledge UK, London and New York, June 2020

Using quantitative techniques, this volume provides the empirical evidence on the crucial role of agriculture and public provisioning of food, water, sanitation, and health care, in reducing the undernutrition of women and children in India. The linkage are cogently explored and connected to sustainable development goals.

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