Feminism Confronts Economic Theory: Exploring Economic Concepts (1996)

FEMINISM CONFRONTS ECONOMIC THEORY:

exploring economic concepts

Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop

Columbia Law School

Jerome Greene Lounge - Wien Hall

November 15 & 16, 1996

Chaired by Martha Fineman

I. Friday, November 15, 4:00 PM-6:00 PM

The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions

Paula England

Univ. of Arizona

Dept of Sociology

A Feminist Perspective on Rational Choice

Gillian Hadfield

Univ. of Toronto Law School

The Feminist and The Economist

Jana Singer

Univ. Of Maryland School of Law

Commentator: Neil Buchanan, Visiting Professor of Economics, Barnard College

6:30 PM Dinner at Professor Fineman's home: 15 Claremont Ave. #91

II. Saturday, November 16th, 10:00 AM-NOON

Economic Growth Strategies and the Pursuit of Social and Economic Well-Being

Nancy Staudt

SUNY -Buffalo Law School

Economic Illusions in Social Welfare Cuts: Disguising Politics and Values as Efficiency Principles

Martha McCluskey

SUNY-Buffalo Law School

Privatization, the Private Subject, and Women: Can Women Truly Be Owners of Capital?

Elizabeth Mayes

New York Univ.

Dept of Comparative Literature

Commentator: Christine Harrington, New York University School of Law

III. Saturday, November 16th, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Preferences and Utility: The Role Power Plays in Dividing Utility and Creating Inequality

Patricia Bradford

Marquette Univ. Law School

Gary Becker Meets Susan Moller Okin or Economics Has Failed to Explain the Changing American Family

June Carbone

Santa Clara Univ. Law School

Men, Women, and Children: The Law and Economics of the Family

Margaret Brinig

George Mason Univ.

Law School

Commentator: Jane Maslow Cohen, Boston University School of Law