An examination of the central tenets of economics from a feminist point of view. The authors suggest that the discipline of economics could be improved by freeing itself from masculine biases, and raise questions about the discipline's objective nature.

Introduction: The Social Construction of Economics and the Social Construction of Gender, Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson 1 The Study of Choice or the Study of Provisioning? Gender and the Definition of Economics, Julie A. Nelson2 The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in NeoclassicalAssumptions, Paula England3 Not a Free Market: The Rhetoric of Disciplinary Authority inEconomics, Diana Strassmann4 Some Consequences of a Conjective Economics, Donald N. McCloskey5 Socialism, Feminist and Scientific, Nancy Folbre6 Public or Private? Institutional Economics and Feminism, Ann L. Jennings7 Discussion and Challenges, Rebecca M. Blank, Rhonda M. Williams, Robert M. Solow, Helen E. Longino