Social provisioning as a starting point for feminist economics

Feminist Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 3-19

  Power, Marilyn ^a  

^a SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Feminist ecological economics; Feminist methodology; Feminist political economics; Gender and development; Social provisioning; Welfare reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 9344233818     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1354570042000267608     Document Type: Review

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