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Women & Economics
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If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics
by:
Marilyn Waring
4.45 avg rating β 165 ratings
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Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
by:
Leta Hong Fincher
3.98 avg rating β 631 ratings
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Women and Economics
by:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
3.63 avg rating β 312 ratings
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Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
by:
Maria Mies
4.31 avg rating β 421 ratings
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Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
by:
Silvia Federici
4.56 avg rating β 12,677 ratings
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The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values
by:
Nancy Folbre
4.04 avg rating β 160 ratings
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Wages Against Housework
by:
Silvia Federici
4.51 avg rating β 378 ratings
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The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalised Economy
by:
Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen
4.29 avg rating β 41 ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by:
David Graeber
4.21 avg rating β 25,621 ratings
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Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak
by:
Julia Penelope
4.06 avg rating β 17 ratings
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The Political Economy of Violence against Women
by:
Jacqui True
3.80 avg rating β 49 ratings
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Poor Women in Rich Countries: The Feminization of Poverty Over the Life Course
by:
Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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DomΓ©stica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence
by:
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
3.95 avg rating β 142 ratings
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Women and Microcredit in Rural Bangladesh: An Anthropological Study of Grameen Bank Lending
by:
Aminur Rahman
3.83 avg rating β 23 ratings
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Reform, Labor, and Feminism: Margaret Dreier Robins and the Women's Trade Union League
by:
Elizabeth Anne Payne
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home
by:
Megan K. Stack
3.78 avg rating β 1,339 ratings
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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
by:
Kristen R. Ghodsee
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7,037 ratings
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Citizens' Wealth: Why (and How) Sovereign Funds Should be Managed by the People for the People
by:
Angela Cummine
3.67 avg rating β 21 ratings
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Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics
by:
Katrine MarΓ§al
3.67 avg rating β 3,788 ratings
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
by:
Friedrich Engels
4.13 avg rating β 7,492 ratings
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Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics
by:
Marianne A. Ferber
4.09 avg rating β 23 ratings
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For the Family?: How Class and Gender Shape Women's Work
by:
Sarah Damaske
3.67 avg rating β 24 ratings
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The Woman-Centered Economy: Ideas, Reality, and the Space In Between
by:
Loraine Edwalds
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century
by:
Melissa Walker
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
by:
Katharina Pistor
4.03 avg rating β 915 ratings
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Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement
by:
Anuradha Ghandy
4.38 avg rating β 617 ratings
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Economics of Women, Men, And Work
by:
Francine D. Blau
3.96 avg rating β 47 ratings
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Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization (Advances In Heterodox Economics)
by:
Drucilla Barker
3.95 avg rating β 20 ratings
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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960
by:
Rebecca Sharpless
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 97 ratings
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The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
by:
Mariana Mazzucato
4.07 avg rating β 3,565 ratings
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Taxes Are a Woman's Issue: Reframing the Debate
by:
Mimi Abramovitz
4.40 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
by:
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
4.31 avg rating β 2,718 ratings
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Renewable Energy Law: An International Assessment
by:
Penelope J Crossley
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South
by:
Lu Ann Jones
3.50 avg rating β 26 ratings
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
by:
Virginia Eubanks
4.01 avg rating β 2,737 ratings
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Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women (NBER Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development)
by:
Claudia Goldin
3.93 avg rating β 29 ratings
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The Lace Makers of Narsapur
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Maria Mies
4.10 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Mortgaging Women's Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment
by:
Pamela Sparr
4.40 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America
by:
Dana Frank
3.99 avg rating β 141 ratings
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Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920
by:
Lara Vapnek
3.92 avg rating β 25 ratings
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Hidden Hands: Women and Economic Policies
by:
Anne Phillips
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
by:
Jacqueline A. Jones
4.18 avg rating β 281 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.65 avg rating β 194,439 ratings
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Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas
by:
Nancy Folbre
4.06 avg rating β 32 ratings
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Kalamazoo Gals: A Story of extraordinary Women and Gibson's "Banner" Guitars of WWII
by:
John Thomas
3.86 avg rating β 93 ratings
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Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 18961926 (Revolutionary Pocketbooks)
by:
Emma Goldman
4.10 avg rating β 109 ratings
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The New Maids: Transnational Women and the Care Economy
by:
Professor Helma Lutz
it was ok 2.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Women Workers in Fifteen Countries: Essays in Honor of Alice Hanson Cook
by:
Jennie Farley
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Labor's Untold Story: The Adventure Story of the Battles, Betrayals and Victories of American Working Men and Women
by:
Richard O. Boyer
3.83 avg rating β 266 ratings
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Woman's Work: The Housewife, Past and Present
by:
Ann Oakley
3.71 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000
by:
Michelle Haberland
4.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
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We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry
by:
Laguana Gray
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh
by:
Lamia Karim
3.75 avg rating β 95 ratings
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In Woman's Defense
by:
Mary Inman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Working Women's Music: The Songs and Struggles of Women in the Cotton Mills, Textile Plants, and Needle Trades
by:
Evelyn Alloy
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Woman-Power
by:
Mary Inman
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Traffic in Women and Other Essays on Feminism
by:
Emma Goldman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 129 ratings
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The Two Forms of Production Under Capitalism
by:
Mary Inman
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
by:
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
4.04 avg rating β 301 ratings
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To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
by:
Jessica Wilkerson
4.30 avg rating β 116 ratings
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Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood
by:
J.E. Smyth
3.64 avg rating β 72 ratings
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Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? (Womenβs Media History Now!)
by:
Jane M. Gaines
2.77 avg rating β 26 ratings
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
by:
Nicholas D. Kristof
4.28 avg rating β 55,460 ratings
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Women in the Ancient World
by:
Jenifer Neils
3.67 avg rating β 54 ratings
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Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in India
by:
Amana Fontanella-Khan
3.56 avg rating β 573 ratings
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Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement
by:
Premilla Nadasen
4.03 avg rating β 79 ratings
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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
by:
Cari Beauchamp
4.35 avg rating β 319 ratings
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Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World
by:
Katherine Zoepf
3.87 avg rating β 1,063 ratings
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The Highest Glass Ceiling: Womenβs Quest for the American Presidency
by:
Ellen Fitzpatrick
3.72 avg rating β 216 ratings
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When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
by:
Gail Collins
4.06 avg rating β 5,588 ratings
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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
by:
Rebecca Traister
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 17,281 ratings
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The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency
by:
Chris Enss
3.59 avg rating β 395 ratings
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Women's History For Beginners
by:
Bonnie J. Morris
4.05 avg rating β 44 ratings
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Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers
by:
Anna M. Lewis
3.69 avg rating β 93 ratings
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Women & Power: A Manifesto
by:
Mary Beard
4.02 avg rating β 38,438 ratings