Feminist Economics is a journal that focuses on feminist economic issues and provides a platform for debate and dialogue on those issues. The main goal of the journal is to improve the living conditions of children, women and men. The journal welcomes diverse voices on such issues and tries to open new areas of economic inquiry. In this way, it enlarges the discussion and also enriches it.
Feminist Economic is currently seeking papers on Engendering Economic Policy in Africa.
The special issue, planned for online publication in 2014 and print publication in 2015, will bring together new research aimed at challenging and improving economic policies in Africa. More generally, the special issue will provide a forum for feminist economists and scholars in relevant disciplines to analyze the interrelationships among macroeconomic reforms, gender inequalities, and the microeconomic channels that affect the well-being of women, their families, and their communities. The special issue will welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions, and analyses that rely on diverse research methodologies, including statistical analysis. Feminist Economics especially welcomes submissions from African scholars as well as others from the Global South.
Contributions may cover diverse topics, including but not limited to:
- Gender and poverty dimensions of macroeconomic policy, aid, and/or debt
- Enhancing food security and reducing livelihood risks using social protection
- Ensuring equitable growth and development in post-conflict economies
- Property rights and how they affect the ownership of assets by women and men
- Microfinance and the debate over its efficacy for women’s empowerment
- The care economy and the role of social policy
Applicants need to first submit the abstract. If the Guest Editors approve the abstract, the complete manuscript will be due 1 April 2012 and should be submitted to Feminist Economics through the submissions website http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rfec.
Last date for submitting the abstracts (500 words maximum) is September 1, 2011.
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