The Strategic Silence : Gender and Economic Policy

Most treatments of economic change harbour a conceptual silence: the refusal to recognise that global restructuring is occurring on a gendered terrain.

This book's unique contribution to the literature on restructuring and adjustment lies in its application of feminist scholarship to macroeconomics.

The contributors focus on these conceptual silences, examining macroeconomic methods and policies in order to propose new research strategies to deliver a more gender-aware economics.

“The artful combination of conceptual essays and specific case studies makes this book an excellent resource from both a methodological and a practical viewpoint.” —Julie A. Nelson, University of California, Davis

“Fills a very important gap in the field of gender and development.” —Naila Kabeer, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

“Offers a much needed corrective to how we examine and interpret the complex issues which frame the relationship between gender and economic policy.” —Shelley Feldman, director of the Program on Gender and Global Change, Cornell University