Can one be both an economist and a feminist? This is the guiding question of Héléne Périvier’s L’économie féministe, which seeks to rebuke the alleged neutrality of economics and expose its gendered core. The study of economics, Périvier argues, was developed by men to serve a society led by men, and the field’s fundamental concepts and methods of analysis are derived from a patriarchal model. This is also a field in which women are severely underrepresented: barely a quarter of all economists are women. Responding to the challenges of a discipline which undermines women and from which women are largely absent, Périvier proposes a critical alternative to the established economic model: the feminist economy.
About the speaker:
Héléne Périvier is an economist at the Observatoire française des conjonctures économiques of Sciences Po Université, where she is also director of the Programme de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Savoirs sur le Genre (PRESAGE). Périvier led the European Commission’s Effective Gender Equality in Research and the Academia project from 2014-2017. L’économie féministe was published in 2020.
Important information: The discussion will be available both online and in person. While the conversation will happen in person (Périvier will appear in the Reading Room), the Library will stream the conversation on Zoom for a live viewing experience. Both in-person and online attendees will be able to pose questions.
This event requires advance registration.
