Unit 3 - Insights from Feminist Political Economy

Core Reading List

Readings cited in lecture


  1. Bagnol, B., Alders, R., & McCONCHIE, R. (2015). Gender issues in human, animal and plant health using an ecohealth perspective. Environment and Natural Resources Research, 5(1), 62.
  2. Beneria, L., & Sen, G. (1981). Accumulation, reproduction, and "women's role in economic development": Boserup revisited. Signs: Journal of women in culture and society, 7(2), 279-298.
  3. Kevane, M., & Gray, L. C. (1999). A woman's field is made at night: Gendered land rights and norms in Burkina Faso. Feminist Economics, 5(3), 1-26.
  4. *Jacobs, S. (2013). Gender and agrarian reforms. London: Routledge.
  5. OLaughlin, B. (2007). Widows Weeds: Gender, AIDS, and the Agrarian Question in Southern Africa. IESE Conference Paper No. 29.
  6. *Oya, C., & Pontara, N. (Eds.). (2015). Rural wage employment in developing countries: theory, evidence, and policy. London: Routledge.
  7. *Quisumbing, A. R., Rubin, D., Manfre, C., Waithanji, E., Van den Bold, M., Olney, D., ... & Meinzen-Dick, R. (2015). Gender, assets, and market-oriented agriculture: learning from high-value crop and livestock projects in Africa and Asia. Agriculture and human values, 32(4), 705-725.
  8. *Sender, J., Oya, C., and C. Cramer (2006) Women Working for Wages: Putting Flesh on the Bones of a Rural Labour Market Survey in Mozambique, Journal of Southern African Studies, 32(2): 313-333.
  9. Sulle, E., & Dancer, H. (2020). Gender, politics and sugarcane commercialisation in Tanzania. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 47(5), 973-992.
  10. Whitehead, A., & Tsikata, D. (2003). Policy discourses on women's land rights in Sub–Saharan Africa: The implications of the re–turn to the Customary. Journal of Agrarian Change, 3(1‐2), 67-112.
  11. *Winders, J., & Smith, B. E. (2019). Social reproduction and capitalist production: A genealogy of dominant imaginaries. Progress in Human Geography, 43(5), 871-889.