Greed, lust & gender : a history of economic ideas / Nancy Folbre

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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Epigraph -- Introduction -- 1. The Eye of the Needle -- Liberation -- Damnation -- Patriarchal Feudalism -- The Growth of Markets -- Patriarchal Ideology -- Markets and Mentalités -- Regulation -- 2. The Springs of Desire -- The Commonwealth of Fathers -- Patriarchy Defended -- Patriarchy Modified -- A Supremacy to Themselves -- (Re)production -- Sexual Efficiency -- Contractual Power -- 3. Defining Virtues -- The Ancient Regime -- Age and Gender, Love and Sex -- The Rebellion of the Harem -- The Climate of Reason -- Self, Love, God, and Nature -- Commerce and Virtue -- Human Nature -- 4. Free Trade but Not Free Love -- Humanism -- Selfishness Celebrated -- Sexual Regulation -- Love Thyself -- The Butcher, the Baker, and the Wife -- The Balance -- 5. The Limits of Affection -- Sweet Commerce -- The Fraternal Compromise -- Slavery and Evil -- Feminism and Abolition -- Observers from Abroad -- Democracy in America -- 6. The Perfectibility of Man -- Progress? -- Of Bread and Cake -- Interests and the Revolution -- Malevolence Theorized -- Timid Egoism -- 7. The Greatest Happiness -- Chivalry versus Calculation -- The Vindication -- Godwin's Enquiry -- The Greatest Good -- Gendered Virtues -- 8. Self-love, Triumphant -- Poor Relief -- The Essay on Population -- Against Benevolence -- The Improper Arts -- Malthus and Women -- Enlightenment Redux -- 9. Production and Reproduction -- Patriarchal Capitalism -- The Rise of Individual Occupations -- The Labor Theory of Value -- Child Labor and the Poor Laws -- Fertility and Out-of-Wedlock Births -- The Wages of Virtue -- Family Disruptions -- 10. Whose Wealth? -- Wealth Demoralized -- The Limits to Growth -- Collective Interests -- The Corn Laws -- Free Trade -- Protectionism -- Selfish Classes -- 11. The Social Family -- The Social Father -- The Great Dream.

Class and Gender -- Owen's Economics -- The Appeal of One-Half the Human Race -- Feminist Socialism -- Utopian and Scientific -- 12. Equal Opportunities -- Napoleonic Code -- Secular Humanism -- The Sexual Radicals -- Le Tribune des Femmes -- The Calculus of Harmony -- The Sexual Welfare State -- Brook Farm -- Crazy Attempts -- 13. The Subjection of Women -- The Partnership -- The Subjection of Women -- Political Activism -- A Fundamental Question -- 14. Declaring Independence -- Peculiar Institutions -- Equality and Difference -- Collective Interests -- The Economic Significance of Family Work -- Divorce and Reproductive Rights -- Balancing Acts -- 15. The Icy Waters -- Revolutions -- Scientific Self-Interest -- The Holy Family -- The Response to Bebel -- Bebel and Social Democracy -- The Survival of the Altruistic -- The Free Development of All -- 16. The Sacred Sphere -- Domestic Advice -- The Meaning of Motherhood -- Neoclassical Altruism -- Women's Duties -- Virtue and Consequences -- 17. The Unproductive Housewife -- Counting Workers -- The U.S. and Massachusetts Censuses -- A Double Bind -- Home Economics and Household Production -- National Income and the Value of Labor Services -- The Meaning of the Adjectives -- 18. The Nanny State -- Fear of Fertility Decline -- The Family Wage -- The Fabians -- The Endowment of Motherhood -- Minimum Wages for Women in the U.S. -- Birth Control -- Sleeping Beauty Awakes -- The Glorious Unfolding -- Public Support and Reproductive Rights -- 19. Human Capitalism -- Social Welfare -- The Opposite Reaction -- Everyone a Capitalist -- Capitalizing Humans -- The Altruistic Family -- Families, Gender Inequality, and the State -- The Third Realm -- 20. Beyond Economic Man -- The Waves -- Feminist Economics -- Motivations -- Markets and Non-Markets -- The Costs of Care -- Gender Norms.

Fairness, Reciprocity, and Care -- Gross National Happiness -- Rational and Caring People -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

This book dramatizes the history of self-interest by describing a centuries-long debate over greed, lust, and appropriate gender roles in terms that ordinary readers will enjoy. Ranging from the 18th century to the present, it offers a deft and engaging critique of economic history and the history of ideas from a feminist perspective.