Women, Economics and History: Diversity within Europe

Abstract

Since its beginnings, the economic discipline has been characterized by an androcentric vision that has had two central consequences: on the one hand, the invisibilization of women as epistemological subjects, that is, as creators of economic thought; and on the other hand, the invisibilization of women as objects of study, leaving out of the economic analysis many of their productive activities and, especially, those related with social reproduction (Agenjo-Calderón, 2021). This special issue of Œconomia / History, Methodology, Philosophy, final outcome of a call for papers launched in January 2021, tries to contribute to the scholarship, from various feminist and gender perspectives, in both ways: by recovering the ideas of women economists silenced by history; and by reconstructing the analysis of women as workers and entrepreneurs in varied European contexts.