I've just gotten a sample copy of the first issue of Feminist Economics (and congrats to Nancy Folbre for getting her article in that ish written up in the Financial Times), and in Sandra Harding's article I read the following: <quote> For example, Julie Nelson argues that the dominant definition of economics as dealing with 'choice in the face of scarcity' reflects gender bias: Defining the subject of economics as individual choice makes the detached cogito, not the material world or real persons in the material world, the center of study. Nature, childhood, bodily needs, and human connectedness, cut off from 'masculine' concern in the Cartesian split, remain safely out of the limelight. <endquote> What is specifically feminist about this critique? What is specifically "masculine" about Descartes and the detached individual? Doug -- Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax
