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Feminist and economists
Feminist economists call attention to the social constructions of traditional economics, questioning the extent to which it is positive and objective, and showing how its models and methods are biased towards masculine preferences.
Feminist economists pushed for and produced gender aware theory and analysis, broadened the focus on economics and sought pluralism of methodology and research methods.
" Feminist economists call attention to the value judgements in all aspects economics and criticize its depiction an objective science.
Feminist economists may also consider the specific gendered effects of trade-decisions.
" Feminist economists often extend these criticisms to many aspects of the social world, arguing that power relations are an endemic and important feature of society.
Feminist economists argue that people are more complex than such models, and call for " a more holistic vision of an economic actor, which includes group interactions and actions motivated by factors other than greed.
Feminist economists also point out that agency is not available to everyone, such as children, the sick, and the frail elderly.
Feminist economists, argue on the contrary that a mathematical conception of economics limited to scarce resources is a holdover from the early years of science and Cartesian philosophy, and limits economic analysis.
Feminist economists suggest that both the content and teaching style of economics courses would benefit from certain changes.
" Feminist economists show that social constructs act to privilege male-identified, western, and heterosexual interpretations of economics.
Feminist economists often make a critical distinction that masculine bias in economics is primarily a result of gender, not sex.
Feminist economists say that mainstream economics has been disproportionately developed by European-descended, heterosexual, middle and upper-middle class men, and that this has led to suppression of the life experiences of the full diversity of the world's people, especially women, children and those in non-traditional families.
Feminist economists also examine early economic thinkers ' interaction or lack of interaction with gender and women's issues, showing examples of women's historical engagement with economic thought.
Feminist economists Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum created the human capabilities approach as an alternative way to assess economic success rooted in the ideas of welfare economics and focused on the individual's potential to do and be what he or she may choose to value.
Feminist economists modify these assumptions to account for exploitative sexual and gender relations, single-parent families, same-sex relationships, familial relations with children, and the consequences of reproduction.
Feminist economists study both paid and unpaid care work.
Feminist economists have argued that unpaid domestic work is as valuable as paid work, so measures of economic success should include unpaid work.
Feminist economists have also highlighted power and inequality issues within families and households.
Feminist economists seek to include the ramifications of this work in their data, analysis, and policy recommendations.
" Feminist economists have criticized the SNA for this exclusion, because by leaving out unpaid work, basic and necessary labor is ignored.
Feminist economists point out three main ways of determining the value of unpaid work: the opportunity cost method, replacement cost method, and input-output cost method.
Feminist economists such as Marilyn Power, Ellen Mutari and Deborah M. Figart have examined the gender pay gap and found that wage setting procedures are not primarily driven by market forces, but instead by the power of actors, cultural understandings of the value of work and what constitutes a proper living, and social gender norms.
Feminist economists ' work on globalization is diverse and multifaceted.
Feminist economists say too many theories claim to present universal principles but actually present a masculine viewpoint in the guise of a " view from nowhere ," so more varied sources of data collection are needed to mediate those issues.

Feminist and others
The Senate rejected his nomination 45 to 51 on April 8, 1970 following much pressure from the Civil Rights and Feminist Movements and impassioned testimony from Betty Friedan and others.
Feminist theorists and others have examined why this is the case.
Feminist activism explores the intersections of social, political, and cultural histories ( among various others denominators ), their implications, and dedicates time and energy to the liberation of all people from injustices.
Mr. Lady Records released recordings by groups such as Kathleen Hanna's lo-fi group Le Tigre ( who released their first two records – Le Tigre and Feminist Sweepstakes – with Mr. Lady ), punk group The Butchies ( of whom Kaia Wilson is the lead singer ), British group Electrelane, Tara Jane O ' Neil, spoken-word collective Sister Spit ( Sini Anderson and Michelle Tea ), and others.

Feminist and work
Feminist economics call attention to the importance of non-market activities, such as childcare and domestic work, to economic development.
Major Women artists in the Twentieth Century are associated with postmodern art since much theoretical articulation of their work emerged from French psychoanalysis and Feminist Theory that is strongly related to post modern philosophy.
* Hanna wrote the introduction to performance artist Karen Finley's ten-year summary of work, The Reality Show, published by The Feminist Press in 2011.
Feminist economists have argued for the inclusion of unpaid work in economic growth statistics.
She received the Feminist Majority Foundation's lifetime achievement award for " tireless work for women's rights, for women and girls in sports, for the Equal Rights Amendment for Women, for civil rights for all Americans, for her championing of the trade union movement, and her devotion to world peace and non-violence.
In a similar fashion the song " FYR " off the album Feminist Sweepstakes is a tribute to the chapter and ideals put forth in Shulamith Firestone's Fifty Years of Ridicule in her 1970 feminist work The Dialectic of Sex.
Feminist studies increased the interest towards Artemisia's artistic work and life.
Walker has received several awards for her work, including the Women of Distinction Award from the American Association of University Women, " Feminist of the Year " award from the Fund for the Feminist Majority, the " Paz y Justicia " award from the Vanguard Public Foundation, the " Intrepid Award " from the National Organization for Women, the " Champion of Choice " award from the California Abortion Rights Action League and the " Women Who Could Be President Award " from the League of Women Voters.
Feminist geographers often focus on the lived experiences of individuals and groups in their own localities, upon the geographies that they live in within their own communities, rather than theoretical development without empirical work.
In addition to societal studies, Feminist Geography also critiques Human Geography and other academic disciplines, arguing that academic structures have been traditionally characterized by a patriarchal perspective, and that contemporary studies which do not confront the nature of previous work reinforce the masculine bias of academic study.
The art historian Griselda Pollock dedicated to Charlotte Salomon a chapter in her Virtual Feminist Museum, analysing her work in terms of contemporary art, Jewish history and cultural theory.
Patricia Hill Collins is credited with introducing the theory in her work entitled Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment.
Feminist author Marilyn French gave the novel a glowing review in the New York Times, calling it a " splendid, fully integrated work.

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