On March 9 I’ll be speaking at the SheEO Global Summit, about Transforming to a Feminist Economy.
This list, below, has some resources for participants and readers who want to learn more about feminism and business, the Feminist economy, and systems change
Connect with these websites:
Cvharquail.com
LiisBeth.com
FeministsAtWork.com
FeministFounders.co (Sally Bingham’s directory of feminist businesses, mostly Canadian)
READ:
Feminism and Business:
Feminism: A Key Idea for Business, Celia V. Harquail, (Routledge, 2020)
Feminine Capital: Unlocking the Power of Women Entrepreneurs, Barbara Orser and Catherine Elliot (Stanford Business Books, 2015).
Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry by Tiffany M. Gill, University of Illinois Press, 2010).
The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability, by Kristen Hogan (Duke University Press, 2016).
What are Feminist Businesses? What are Feminist Business Practices? By CV Harquail https://medium.com/@cvharquail/what-are-feminist-businesses-what-are-feminist-business-practices-a9a48d276cbc
Listen to a podcast of (En)Gendered with Teri Yuan (Episode 72) https://engendered.us/episode-72-cvharquail-on-feminism-a-key-idea-for-business-and-society-part-1-of-2/
Feminism and Economics
The politics of the solar age: Alternatives to economics, by Hazel Henderson, (Anchor Press/ Doubleday, 1981)
If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics, by Marilyn Waring, (HarperCollins, 1990)
Counting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics, Second Edition, by Margunn Bjørnholt & Ailsa McKay (Demeter Press, 2014)
Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics, by Marianne A. Ferber & Julie A. Nelson, (University of Chicago Press, 1993)
The Age of Thrivability: Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World, by Michelle Holliday ( Cambium, 2016). See also Michelle’s Website: https://ageofthrivability.com/
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, by Kate Raworth (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017) * Lex Schroeder’s favorite
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?, by Katrine Marcal (Pegasus Books, 2017) * Lex Schroeder’s favorite
Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization, by Drucilla Barker& Susan F. Feiner (University of Michigan Press, 2004)
Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis, by Nancy Fraser (Verso Books, 2013)
Feminist Economics: Theoretical and Political Dimensions, Astrid Agenjo-Calderon & Lina Gálvez‐Muñoz, in American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Jan 2019.
Free Access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajes.12264
On Systems Change
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System, by Donella Meadows http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/
Move As If Women Are Half the World and You Are Part of Something Larger, by Lex Schroeder (2018) https://medium.com/@lexschroeder/move-as-if-women-are-half-the-world-and-you-are-part-of-something-larger-a2e195d36ccd
Feminist Businesses Observe the Laws of the Earth, by Lex Schroeder (2019) https://medium.com/@lexschroeder/feminist-businesses-observe-the-laws-of-the-earth-feminist-entrepreneurs-can-learn-from-how-bf4c228926c2