'The excellent list of themes and chapters in this volume reflects the maturity reached by feminist economics in its different dimensions. Based on the notion of social provisioning for all as the basic objective of economics, they represent a challenge to conventional economic thought and they...

Prosperity -- Censored : how the west (supposedly) got ahead -- Uncensored : the secret recipe of economic success -- Inequality -- When did sexism begin? -- Income inequality : what does sex have to do with it? -- Sex sells -- State versus markets -- Marx versus markets -- Why women make better...

Intorduction : Theorizing the gendering of the knowledge economy : comparative approaches / Sylvia Walby -- Gender and the conceptualization of the knowledge economy in comparison / Karen Shire -- Comparative livelihood security systems from a gender perspective, with a focus on Japan / Mari...