Women, nature and the social construction of ‘economic man’

“…Lewis finds that some women entrepreneurs, who believe in meritocracy and gender neutrality in the business world, silence gender and emphasize their similarity to male entrepreneurs. However, when women disproportionately engage in alternative economic practices that emphasize community, family and innovative business models, it highlights the conventional association of masculinist economic rationality with market and profit orientation (Nelson 1995;Mellor 1997,) that some women reject.…”

Section: Gender and Models Of Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Our market is our community”: women farmers and civic agriculture in Pennsylvania, USA

et al. 2009

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Civic agriculture is characterized in the literature as complementary and embedded social and economic strategies that provide economic benefits to farmers at the same time that they ostensibly provide socio-environmental benefits to the community. This paper presents some ways in which women farmers practice civic agriculture. The data come from in-depth interviews with women practicing agriculture in Pennsylvania. Some of the strategies women farmers use to make a living from the farm have little to do with food or agricultural products, but all are a product of the process of providing a living for farmers while meeting a social need in the community. Most of the women in our study also connect their business practices to their gender identity in rural and agricultural communities, and redefine successful farming in opposition to traditional views of economic rationality.

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“…The importance of context, groundedness, and local specificities is a recurring theme in feminist and ecofeminist work (see, for example, Merchant 1992; Salleh 1997, Mellor 1997b, Mies & Bennholdt-Thomsen 1999. In particular, feminists have critiqued the idea of an objective and universalizing reality, and have emphasized reflexive self-awareness and empathic identification in both theoretical and activist work.…”

Section: Starting From Local Placesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist Ecological Economics and Sustainability

Perkins

2007

J Bioecon

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feminist economics, ecological economics, sustainable development, unpaid work, economic valuation, caring labor, material throughput, economic growth, gender, equity, social reproduction, local economies, social change, sustaining services, social sustainability, feminism, provisioning, sustainable livelihoods, service sector, quality of life, work time, multi-tasking, discourse-based valuation, community economies, social resilience, B54, D10, D13, D19, D46, D62, D63, D64, E26, F01, J16, Q56, Q57,

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Women, nature and the social construction of ‘economic man’

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