The Islamic Homeland

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691158488.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Ellen Anne McLarney

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Economic Crisis ◽

Women's Work ◽

Household Economy ◽

Mainstream Economic ◽

Political Liberalization ◽

Women’S Work ◽

Economic Journal ◽

The International Monetary Fund ◽

Untapped Resource

This chapter traces the proliferation of debates over women's work—tangled dialectics among development experts, feminists, academics, politicians, Marxists, Azharis, Islamists, and journalists like Iman Muhammad Mustafa. Mustafa charts a specific chronological timeline of these debates, from 1974 to 1989, a period of intense economic and political liberalization in Egypt. In 1989, in the midst of economic crisis and Egypt's contentious negotiations with the International Monetary Fund, Mustafa published a ten-part series of articles in the mainstream economic journal al-Ahram al-Iqtisadi criticizing “the working woman.” The articles identified women as a great, untapped resource of human capital in Egypt. Using the statistics, charts, arguments, and language of development reports, Mustafa critiqued Western, secular, feminist valorization of remunerated labor through a celebration of the economic and social worth of women's work in the household economy.

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Sentiment and Prejudice

History of Political Economy ◽

10.1215/00182702-9395055 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 799-832

Author(s):

Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche ◽

Annie L. Cot

Keyword(s):

World War I ◽

Presidential Address ◽

Women's Work ◽

British Association ◽

Equal Pay ◽

Women’S Work ◽

Women's Wages ◽

Equal Work ◽

Economic Journal

This article describes the evolution of Edgeworth’s thought on women’s wages and on the principle of “equal pay for equal work.” We first document Edgeworth’s early works on “exact utilitarianism” as an epistemic basis for his reflections upon women’s wages. Second, we review his first writings on women’s work and wages: early mentions in the 1870s, his book reviews published in the Economic Journal, and the substantial preface he wrote for the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1904 report on Women in Printing Trades. Third, we document his 1922 British Association presidential address in relation to the burgeoning literature on women’s work and wages within political economy at the time. Finally, we show that his 1923 follow-up article on women’s wages and economic welfare constitutes an update of his “aristocratical utilitarianism” in the post–World War I context.

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