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Feminist Economics
Call for Papers: A Special Issue on Women and Wealth
Carmen Diana Deere and Cheryl Doss, Guest Editors
Feminist Economics invites submissions of papers, short exploratory
discussions, and book reviews for a special issue on Women and the
Distribution of Wealth, to be published in 2006. The deadline for
submitting abstracts is July 30, 2003; complete manuscripts are due
March 30, 2004.
This special issue intends to document the distribution of wealth by
gender and address how and why it matters. We invite scholars in all
disciplines to submit work that advances our understanding of i) the
current gender distribution of wealth in the North and South; ii) the
historical processes including changes in women s legal property
rights, labor force participation, educational attainments, etc. that
generate changes in women s access to and control over assets; and
iii) the implications for women of different gender distributions of
wealth.
This special issue will include historical, comparative, analytical,
and policy-oriented work. While individual papers may be narrowly
focused, the scope of the special issue is broadly defined to
encompass work that:
* increases information on the distribution of wealth by gender;
* conceptualizes how we think about and measure asset ownership,
recognizing that formal ownership may differ from control over assets;
* takes into account differences of race, ethnicity, and social class;
* considers wealth as a measure of bargaining power within households
* examines different marital regimes and their implications in
practice for married women s property rights and those of widows,
widowers and divorcees;
* analyzes the role of inheritance in total household wealth and on
the gender and generational implications of different inheritance
systems and practices;
* reviews the role of women in organizing for legal and social change,
including the enforcement of women s property rights;
* explores how the composition of assets may change in the course of
economic development (such as from physical to financial assets);
* investigates differences in asset ownership between rural and urban
women (e.g., land versus housing);
* evaluates the relationship between poverty reduction and asset
accumulation;
* analyzes the role of the state in reducing (or causing) inequalities
in wealth and assets both by gender and class;
* reviews existing public policy, including laws that govern social
security and the taxation of capital gains and inheritances.
We hope to showcase the research in panels at the annual conferences
of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) and
the Allied Social Science Association (ASSA). Please direct queries
and abstracts of proposed papers to the Guest Editors: Carmen Diana
Deere () and Cheryl Doss (cheryl.doss at yale.edu). Final papers (after
approval of abstracts) should be submitted to the journal editor,
Diana Strassmann, and should follow the submission guidelines listed
on the journal's website at www.feministeconomics.org. You will also
find guidelines in every issue of the journal, or you may request them
by writing to: Diana Strassmann, Editor, Feminist Economics, MS-9,
Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892 USA; (e-mail:
feministeconomics at rice.edu fax: 1.713.348.5495).

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