Postmodernism och feministisk nationalekonomi

Abstract

The increasing presence of women in academic economics in the past several decades has had a clear impact on the practice of economics. There are similarities between postmodernism and feminist economics. Both question the categories and hierarchies on which theory and analysis is based, the universality and objectivity implicitly claimed by economic theory, and standards and values, and policy implications. They call for a re-contextualisation of theory, to show that far from discussing universal experiences, the non-feminist models present particular gendered experiences, raising up the male side of science, rationality and the märket. Adding gender as a category complicates the analysis, but enriches it, by asking new and interesting questions. In these ways, postmodernism in general is an ally of feminist economics, by providing a theory of knowledge and language to support the feminist criticisms of other extant economics.