{"product_id":"gender-and-the-dismal-science-9780231192903","title":"Gender and the Dismal Science","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a groundbreaking account of the role of women during the formative years of American economics. Blending rich historical detail with extensive empirical data, Ann Mari May examines the structural and institutional factors that excluded women, from graduate education to academic publishing to university hiring practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBravo to Ann Mari May for recovering and assembling novel data sets to buttress \u003ci\u003eGender and the Dismal Science\u003c\/i\u003e's persuasive narrative of the experience of women—both black and white—in  the early days of the profession and the construction of the field as a quintessential “old boy network.” -- Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGender and the Dismal Science\u003c\/i\u003e, Ann Mari May confronts the contemporary challenge posed by the masculinist nature of the economics profession in the U.S. by offering its history. The result is an incisive, well-documented, and thoroughly readable account of the educational opportunities and professional experiences of women economists in the U.S. -- Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, author of \u003ci\u003eAlma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGender and the Dismal Science\u003c\/i\u003e combines careful archival research, innovative empirical work, and a compelling narrative to tell the story of the barriers that women economists have faced since the birth of the field. With an accessible and compelling voice, May ensures this history of the hidden half can now be seen. -- Justin Wolfers, coauthor of \u003ci\u003ePrinciples of Economics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTackling the issue from a modern and historical perspective, Ann Mari May reflects back on the historical and institutional trends, choices, rules, and behaviors that shaped the economics discipline in the first half of the twentieth century. Frankly, I don’t know anyone else who could do a better job. -- Marianne Johnson, secretary of the History of Economics Society\u003cbr\u003eA rich historical narrative on the long-standing sources of such gender gaps. * Finance and Development *\u003cbr\u003eBy examining the early days of the profession, May sheds light on some roots of the issue...Recommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eThis book makes for an excellent feminist reading of the evolution of economics. * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e1. Current Challenges, Historical Origins\u003cbr\u003e2. The Political Economy of Gender in the Halls of Ivy\u003cbr\u003e3. A Liminal Space: Graduate Training in the Dismal Science\u003cbr\u003e4. A Membership Beyond the Professoriate\u003cbr\u003e5. A Natural Constituency\u003cbr\u003e6. The Trade in Words: Gender and the Monograph\u003cbr\u003e7. Trouble in the Inaugural Issue of the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Economic Review\u003c\/i\u003e: The Monograph and the Review\u003cbr\u003e8. Gender, the Old Boy Network, and the Scholarly Journal\u003cbr\u003e9. Not a Free Market: Women’s Employment After the Doctorate\u003cbr\u003e10. A Destiny Fulfilled: Defining the Professional Economist\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524655522135,"sku":"9780231192903","price":84.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231192903.jpg?v=1731857633","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gender-and-the-dismal-science-9780231192903","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}