DEGREES:

Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics (Yale University 1978)

B.A. in Economics (University of Michigan 1974)

Diplome d'Etudes Economiques Generales (University of Paris 1973)

Fellow, Radcliffe Public Policy Center, 1999-2000

"Outstanding Book in Human Rights" Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for Race, Gender, & Work 1992

Choice Magazine's "Outstanding Academic Books" Award for An Economic History of Women in America 1983

Mellon Faculty Development Award, with Teresa Amott, for course development, "The Sexual Division of Labor: Issues in Public Policy," 1980

Danforth Graduate Fellowship, Yale University 1977-78

Honors, University of Michigan 1974

Honors, University of Paris 1972

Dean's List, Stanford 1970

Phi Beta Kappa Certificate of Commendation 1969

National Merit Scholar 1969

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD:

Professor of Economics, Wellesley College, 1991 to present; Associate Professor of Economics with tenure, Wellesley College, 1984 to 1991; Chair, Department of Economics, 1985-87; Assistant Professor of Economics, Fall 1978 to 1984

Professor, Traveling Feminist Economics Graduate Course, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota, Spring Semester 1998.

Acting Instructor, Yale University, "Women in the Economy," Spring 1978

Research Assistant, Center for Research on Economic Development, University of Michigan 1974

COURSES TAUGHT:

Feminist Economics; The Sexual Division of Labor; Radical Political Economics; Marxist and Post-Marxist Economics; The History of Economic Thought; Intermediate Microeconomic Theory; Introductory Microeconomics; An Introduction to Economic Thinking and Economic Herstories (writing-intensive courses); Gender, Race, and Economics; Race and Gender in U.S. Economic History

BOOKS

Race, Gender and Work: A Multi-Cultural Economic History of Women in the United States, with Teresa Amott. Boston: South End Press, 1991 and revised edition, 1996. Parts pre-published in Ms. Magazine (Dec. 1990) and Z Magazine. Partially reprinted in Scholarship by and about Las Mujeres (Chicanas, Latinas, Puertorriquenas, Cubanas) in the United States, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota; in Margaret Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins, Race, Class and Gender: An Anthology, 5th edition, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000; and as "Race, Gender and Work: The History of Asian and Asian-American Women," in Charles A. Gallegher, Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, pp. 222-236.

An Economic History of Women in America: Women's Work, the Sexual Division of Labor, and the Development of Capitalism, New York, Schocken Books, 1982 and Brighton, England: The Harvester Press.

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

“Healing ourselves, healing our economy: Paid work, unpaid work,and the next stage of feminist economic transformation,” Review of RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS, Special Issue: Women’s Political Economy, 33:4 (Fall 2001),461-494.

"Beyond Racist Capitalist Patriarchy: Growing a Liberated Economy," in Ron Baiman, Heather Boushey, and Dawn Saunders, eds, Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism: Radical Perspectives on Economic Theory and Policy. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000.

"Some Comments on the Role of Lesbianism in Feminist Economic Transformation," Feminist Economics, 4:2 (1998), 83-88.

"The Sexual Division of Labor, Sexuality, and Lesbian/Gay Liberation: Toward a Marxist Feminist Analysis of Sexuality in U.S. Capitalism." in Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed, eds., Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community, & Lesbian and Gay life. London: Routledge, 1997.

"Why Marxist, Feminist, and Anti-Racist Economists Should be Marxist-Feminist-Anti-Racist Economists." Feminist Economics 2:1 (1996), 22-42.

"The Sexual Division of Labor, Sexuality, and Lesbian/Gay Liberation: Towards a Marxist Feminist Analysis of Sexuality in U.S. Capitalism." Review of Radical Political Economics 27:2 (June 1995).

"Marxist-Feminist Contributions to Radical Economics" in Susan Feiner and Bruce Roberts, eds., Radical Economics. Norwell, Mass.: Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1992. pp. 117-144.

"Race, Gender, Work: the History of Asian and Asian-American Women," with Teresa Amott, Race & Class: A Journal for Black and Third World Liberation 31:3 (January-March 1990): 61-80

"Surplus Labor, the Household, and Gender Oppression," Rethinking Marxism 2 (Winter 1989): 70-78. Reprinted in Harriet Fraad, Stephen Resnick, and Richard Wolff, Bringing it All Back Home: Class, Gender and Power in the Modern Household. Boulder, Colo.: Pluto Press, 1994, 42-49.

"Political Economy and Family Policy," in The Imperiled Economy, Book II, Through the Safety Net, ed. by Robert Cherry et al. Union for Radical Political Economics and Monthly Review Press, 1988. Reprinted in Marcia Stubbs & Sylvan Barnet, The Little, Brown Reader, Fifth Edition. Boston: Scott, Foresman, and Co., 1989.

"The Promise of Comparable Worth: A Socialist-Feminist Perspective." with Teresa Amott. Socialist Review 88:2 (April-June 1988). Reprinted in a revised version in Nancy Schniedewind et al, eds., Women: Images and Realities, A Multicultural Anthology of Women in the United States. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1994.

"La Critica a la Familia en los Estudios de la Mujer." Revista Cayey. XIX:54-55 (Marzo-Junio de 1987).

"Rethinking Scarcity: Neo-Classicism, Neo-Malthusianism, and Neo-Marxism," Review of Radical Political Economics 15(4):81-94 (Winter 1985), and Reply to Comment on this article by John M. Gowdy, "Neoclassical and Neo-Marxian Views of Scarcity: There is a Free Lunch," Review of Radical Political Economics 18(4):106-8 (Winter 1986).

"Comparable Worth, Incomparable Pay: The Political Economy of Comparable Worth," with Teresa Amott, Radical America 18(5):21-8 (September/October 1984), reprinted in revised form in Rochelle Lefkowitz and Ann Withorn, eds., For Crying Out Loud. New York: Pilgrim Press, 1986 and in Sylvan Barnet and Hugo Bedau, eds., Current Issues and Enduring Questions: Methods and Models of Argument from Plato to the Present. New York: St. Martin's, 1987, pp. 106-112.

"Capitalism and the Sexual Division of Labor: An Essay in U.S. Economic History," Social Concept l(2):13-35 (September 1983).

"Freedom and Unfreedom in Marxian Economics," Eastern Economic Journal 9(2):71-8 (April-June 1983), and Reply to Comment on this article by Jack Amariglio and Antonio Callari, "Marxian Economics and Freedom," Eastern Economic Journal 12(l):78-80 (January-March 1986).

"Consequences of the Rise of the Two-Earner Family: The Breakdown of the Sexual Division of Labor, Papers and Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the American Economics Association, American Economic Review 70(2):198-202 (May 1980).

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY, AND BOOK REVIEWS:

Review of Nancy Folbre, The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values, Feminist Economics. 7:2 (July 2001).

"Patriarchy," in Janice Peterson and Margaret Lewis, eds., The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.

"Race," in Janice Peterson and Margaret Lewis, eds., The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.

"Sexuality," in Philip O'Hara, ed., The Encyclopedia of Political Economy. London: Routledge, 1999, 1163-1165.

"Homemaking" and "The Double Day," in Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, Barbara Smith et al., eds., 1998.

"The Changing Relationship Between Economy and Family in U.S. History," Work in America: Implications for Families, Hearing before the Select Committee in Children, Youth, and Families, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session, April l7, 1986. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986, 60-64

Review of Lynn Y. Weiner, From Working Girl to Working Mother: The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980, American Historical Review (December 1985), 1267-8.

Review of Faye E. Dudden, Serving Women: Household Service in Nineteenth-Century America, Labor History 25(4):577-8 (Fall 1984).

Review of Judith Sealander, As Minority Become Majority: Federal Reaction to the Phenomenon of Women in the Work Force, 1920-1963. American Historical Review (April 1984), 547-8.

Review of Winnifred E. Wandersee's Women's Work and Family Values, 1920-1940 in Science 212:4496 (May 1981).

Review of Alec Nove's Political Economy and Soviet Socialism in Contemporary Sociology 10:2 (March 1981).

SELECTED OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Syllabus for Economics 101, Survey of Microeconomics, in Robert Barry and Robert Larkin, eds., Teacher's Guide to Advanced Placement Courses in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. College Entrance Examination Board. 1988.

"The Economic Crisis of the Family in the Late 20th Century," The Wellesley Townsman, March 12, 1987.

"Capitalism and Democracy," The Wellesley Townsman, June 12, 1986.

"Economic Future in Three Scenarios," Response (Publication of the Board of Global Ministries, The United Methodist Church), Centennial Issue, Summer 1985, pp. 24-38.

Syllabus for Economics 243, "Issues in Social Policy: The Sexual Division of Labor," in Union for Radical Political Economics, ed., Reading Lists in Radical Social Science, New York: Monthly Review, 1982.

"The Economics of Employment Discrimination", Progress: The Newsletter of the Women's Commission in Exile 3:5 (Spring 1982).

SELECTED PAPERS PRESENTED, SPECIAL LECTURES, AND TALKS:

“Family Life After Capitalism,” and “Religious Life After Capitalism,” World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Janurary 2003.

“From Hierarchical Dualism to Integrative Liberatoin: Thoughts on a Possible Non-Racist, Non-Classist Feminist Future,” International Association of Feminist Economists Annual Meeting, July 2002.

“Healing Ourselves, Healing Our Economy: Paid Work, Unpaid Work, and the Next Stage of Feminist Economic Transformation.” Rethinking Marxism 2000. September.

"The Next Stage of Feminist Economic Transformation." Boston Community Church. March 2000.

"Healing Ourselves, Healing Our Economy: The Next Stage of Feminist Economic Transformation." International Women's Day Speaker, Fitchburg State College. March 2000.

"Healing Ourselves, Healing Our Economy: Paid Work, Unpaid Work, and the Next Stage of Feminist Economic Transformation." Wellesley Women's Studies Faculty Seminar. February 2000.

"Beyond Racist Capitalist Patriarchal Economics: Toward a Feminist Economics for the Third Millenium." Radcliffe Public Policy Center. November 1999.

"The Radical Potential of Feminist Movement: Towards a Post-Patriarchal Economics" for Plenary Session,"A Feminist Agenda for Radical Political Economy," Union for Radical Political Economics Summer Conference. August 1998. Camp Chinqueha, CT.

"Feminist Radical Political Economics: Hot Topics and Future Directions," Roundtable Participant. Union for Radical Political Economics Summer Conference. August 1998. Camp Chinqheha. CT.

"Beyond Racist Capitalist Patriarchal Economics: Growing a Liberated Economy." Feminist Economics Lecture Series, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota, May 1998.

"Global Capitalism, Difference, and Women's Liberation: Towards an Alternative, Liberated Economy," Murray Research Center, Radcliffe, March 1998.

Panelist, Roundtable Discussion, "Feminist Economics and the Environment," International Association of Feminist Economists Meetings, Taxco, Mexico, June 1997.

"Feminism, Marxism, and Social Change: Towards an Alternative, Post-Patriarchal, Liberated Economy," International Association of Feminist Economists Meetings, Taxco, Mexico, June 1997.

Panelist, Roundtable Discussion, "Marriage, Feminism, and Same-Sex Couples: Too Much of a Bad Think, or Not Enough of a Good Thing?" International Association of Feminist Economists Meetings, Taxco, Mexico, June 1997.

"Beyond Racist Capitalist Patriarchy: Growing a Liberated Economy." Union for Radical Political EconomicsSummer Conference. August 1997. Camp Chinqueha, CT.

"Global Capitalism, Difference, and Women's Liberation: Towards an Alternative, Liberated Economy," with Teresa Amott. State of the Art Symposium on Race, Class, and Gender. University of Georgia, Athens, April 1997. Also presented at the International Association of Feminist Economists Meetings, Taxco, Mexico, June 1997, and at the Murray Research Center, March 1998. Wellesley College Working Paper 97-03.

"Radical Analyses of Race and Gender," at N.S.F. Summer Institute, "Improving Introductory Economics by Integrating the Latest Research on Women and Minorities," Wellesley, June 1995.

"The Sexual Division of Labor, Sexuality, and Lesbian/Gay Liberation: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis of Sexuality in U.S. Economic History." Washington, D.C. Area Economic History Seminar, April, 1994.

"The Economics of Sexuality: An Historical Study." Presentation at Conference Organized by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY Graduate School, "Homo-Economics: The Economy of the Lesbian and Gay Community." April 1994.

"Maids and Managers: Women's Works Past, Present, and Future," with Teresa Amott. Keynote Address at the 8th Annual Lowell Conference on Women's History, March, 1994.

"Why Marxists, Feminists and Anti-Racists Should be Marxist-Feminist-Anti-Racists," American Economics Association Session on "What it Means to Still be a Marxist," Annual ASSA Meetings, January, 1994.

"Afrocentrism, Black Nationalism, and Feminism." East Coast Feminist Scholars Conference, October 1993.

"The Sexual Division of Labor, Sexuality, and Lesbian/Gay Liberation: Towards a Marxist-Feminist Analysis of Sexuality in U.S. Capitalism," U.R.P.E. at the A.S.S.A., Annaheim, January 1993.

"Feminist Pedagogy and Multiculturalism," with Teresa Amott. Association for Social Economics Session at Annual ASSA Meetings, January 1993.

"Race, Gender, and Women's Works: Lessons from U.S. Economic History," National Women's Studies Association Conference, June 1990.

"Beyond Dual and Tri-Systems Theory: Race, Class, Gender and Marxist-Feminist Theory," Marxism Now: Traditions and Difference Conference, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, November 1989.

"Marxist-Feminism and Marxism: Beyond the Unhappy Marriage." Summer Meetings of the Union of Radical Political Economics, August 1988.

"The Patriarchal Structure of Capital: A Feminist Analysis of the Development of the Firm in the U.S.," Seventh Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Wellesley College, June 1987.

"The Family as a System of Income Distribution: Crisis and Alternatives," Williams College Conference on the Black Family and the Feminization of Poverty, Febrary 1987.

"La Critica a la Familia en los Estudios de la Mujer," Plenary Session Presentation at the First Congress of Research and Teaching on Women, University of Puerto Rico, September 1986.

"Beyond Sex and Blood: Gender, Kinship, and Economics," Vassar College, Le Moyne College, and East Coast Feminist Scholars Conference, 1985.

"The Economics of Comparable Worth," Massachusetts Nurses Association Conference on Comparable Worth, January 1985.

"Is There an Economics of Family Life?" Five-College Economics Conference, April 1984.

"The Breakdown of the Sexual Division of Labor in the Twentieth-Century U.S.: An Historical Perspective," Seminar on Sex, Sex Roles, and Family, Children's Hospital, Boston, May 1983.

"Rethinking Scarcity: Neo-Classicism, Neo-Malthusianism, and Neo-Marxism," Annual Meetings of the Eastern Economics Association, Boston, March 1983.

"Dismantling the Generic Man: Manhood and Capitalist Development in the U.S.," Conference of the Union for Radical Political Economics at the American Social Science Association Convention, New York City, December 1982.

"Theories of Patriarchy," Center for Popular Economics Special Lecture, Amherst, July 1982.

"Capitalism and the Sexual Division of Labor," Women's Studies Colloquium, Swarthmore College, April 1982.

"The Contribution of Marxist Economic Theory to Women's History," Annual Meetings of the Social Science History Association, Nashville, October 1981.

"Capitalism and the Sexual Division of Labor: An Essay in U.S. Economic History," Indiana University Economic History Seminar, October 1981.

"Marx's Conception of Homo Economicus," Annual Meetings of the History of Economics Society, Lansing, June l981.

"The Sexual Division of the Labor Force," Annual Meetings of the Social Science History Association, Rochester, November 1980.

"Women's Work, the Sexual Division of Labor, and American Capitalism," Economics, Political Science, and Women's Studies Colloquium, University of California at Riverside, November 1980.

"Consequences of the Rise of the Two-Earner Family: A Breakdown of the Sexual Division of Labor," Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association, December 1979.

"Women's Work and the Sexual Division of Labor in the Colonial Family Economy," University of Michigan Speaker Series, October 1979.

"The History of Women in the American Economy: An Analytical Overview," Union for Radical Political Economics National Conference, August 1976.

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:

(with Barbara Brandt) “From Hierarchical Dualism to Integrative Liberation: Thoughts on a Possible Non-Racist Non-Classist Feminist Future,” Wellesley College Working Paper 2001-03

Healing Ourselves, Healing Our Economy: Gender, Spirituality, and the Birth of the Integrative Self (with Barbara Brandt)

ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE:

Reviewer, Feminist Economics, Eastern Economic Journal, Social Concept, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and for the National Science Foundation.

Co-Planner and Co-Teacher, Graduate Course in Feminist Economics, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota, Spring Semester, 1998.

Visiting Committee to Evaluate Smith College's Economics Department, Fall 1990.

Visiting Committee to Evaluate Vassar College's Economics Department, Spring 1990.

Economist, Economic Literacy Project of Women for Economic (formerly the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women), 1980 to 1995.

Advisory Board, Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1990 to present.

Editorial Board, Social Concept, 1983-1995.

Charter Member, International Association of Feminist Economists, 1995- present.

Member, Northeast Feminist Scholars Conference (Marxist-Feminist I), 1977 to present.

Member, Union for Radical Political Economics, 1974 to present.

Co-Editor, Dollars and Sense: A Monthly Bulletin of Economic Affairs, January to December 1979.

SELECTED SERVICE AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE:

Co-Founder and Member, Alliance of Multicultural Organizations, 1998-1999

Co-Chair, Committee Against Racism and Discrimination, 1997-99 and Member 1993-97

Member, Standing Panel on Grievances, 1993-1996

Participant, Ford Foundation Project on Teaching and Learning, 1984-87

Co-Chair, AAUP Committee on Sexual Harassment, 1990-92

Chair, Department of Economics, 1985-87

Member, Committee on Curriculum and Instruction, 1984-87

Chair, Committee on Extra-Mural and Graduate Fellowships, 1982-83

Co-Director, Women's Studies Program, 1980-81