The Revue de la Régulation wishes to stimulate new thought about gender-related issues in political economy. Contributions can be made in the four areas defined below.
Deadline – 31 August 2018
Coordinators: Cécile Lefèvre, Cerlis, Université Paris Descartes and Ined, cecile.lefevre@parisdescartes.fr ; Thomas Lamarche, Ladyss, Université Paris Diderot thomas.lamarche@univ-paris-diderot.fr
1 – Investigations of new fields of economics through the gender lens
The aim of this thematic issue is to encourage reflective articles on “gender and political economy” devoted to themes that are not usually studied from the angle of gender or by means of an analysis defined in terms of gender: gender and systems of production, gender and enterprise, gender and financial globalization, gender and money, gender and economic crisis, gender and the environment, gender and commonplace notions, etc. Comparative approaches (between countries, periods, currents of thought, etc.) are particularly welcome.
2 – Proposals for new perspectives on fields that have already been the subject of publications many times over:
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Gender and development economics
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Gender, conventions, indicators and measures in political economy
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The history of economic thought as seen through the gender lens
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Gender, work and family (on this theme, given the substantial volume of studies in applied economics on the inequality between men and women in terms of salaries, employment and the relations between family and work, articles of a more reflective and synthetic nature will be given preference over case studies).
3 – Contributions to developments in political economy and heterodox (notably régulationist) approaches inspired by the notion of gender
In view of the strategic positioning of the Régulation Review, contributions relating to the following questions will be particularly welcomed:
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Institutional economics, the economics of conventions, régulation theory: what do they have to say about gender studies in economics?
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Are gender studies heuristic (or not) with regard to the development of political economics?
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Do gender-related issues constitute an interdisciplinary phenomenon which thus establishes a link between the social sciences (economics, history, geography, sociology and anthropology)?
4 – Last but not least, scrutiny of the examination of the gender positioning of economists and of the attention paid by them to gender studies
There are a number of courses and master degrees devoted to gender issues (more of them in sociology than in economics), but the overall picture remains that of a subject granted only marginal importance in academic syllabi for economists. Furthermore, recent investigations have underlined the difficulties encountered by women economists in establishing themselves in the discipline and in the academic environment.
The question of gender also impacts the choice of themes and the different ways in which techniques and methods are used by economists, depending on whether they are women or men.
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