Feminist Economics of Trade

Irene van Staveren is Associate Professor of Feminist Development Economics at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands. She is also Professor of Economics and Christian Ethics at Radboud University, Nijmegen.Diane Elson is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, UK and Affiliated Professor in Feminist Development Economics at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands.Caren A. Grown is a Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute, Bard College, USA.Nilüfer Çatagay is Associate Professor of Economics and a faculty member of the Middle East Studies and Women's Studies Programs at the University of Utah, USA.

• 1. Introduction: Why a Feminist Economis of Trade? Part 1: Trade and Gender: Framing the Issues 2. Gender and the Social Construction of Markets 3. Mainstream, Heterodox and Feminist Trade Theory Part 2: Impacts of Gender Inequality on Trade 4. Gender, Trade and Development: Labour Market Discrimination and North-South Terms of Trade 5. The Formal Structure of a Gender-segregated Low-income Econmy 6. Macroeconomic Effects of Reducing Gender Wage Inequality in an Export-oriented, Semi-industrialized Economy Part 3: Impacts of Trade on Gender Inequality 7. Modelling the Effects of Trade on Womem at Work and at Home: Comparative Perspectives 8. Mature Export-led Growth and Gender Wage Inequality in Taiwan 9. Export-led Industrialization and Gender Differences in Job Creation and Destruction: Micro Evidence from the Turkish Manufacturing Sector 10. Gender Segregation and Gender Bias in Manufacturing Trade Expansion: Revisiting the 'Wood Asymmetry' 11. Importing Equality or Exporting Jobs?: Competition and Gender Wage and Employment Differentials in U.S. Manufacturing Part 4: Feminist Approaches to Trade Policy 12. Gender, Codes, and Labor Standards in Global Production Systems 13. Gender Indicators for Monitoring Trade Agreements 14. Gender Issues in the Multilateral Trading System 15. Gender Equity and Globalization: Macroeconomic Policy for Developing Countries