THE 2001 IAFFE CONFERENCE ON FEMINIST ECONOMICS
Preliminary Program (6/6/01)
22 - 24 June - Oslo, Norway

FRIDAY 22ND JUNE (University of Oslo- Downtown Campus)

10.00 a.m.- 1.00 p.m. IAFFE Board Meeting

1:30 p.m. - 3. 00 p.m. Strategic Planning (Rhonda Sharp, Chair)

3.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Opening Plenary

7.00 p.m. - late. Dinner, Boat Ride, Socializing

SATURDAY 23RD JUNE (Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica)

9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. Registration

9.00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Sessions

4.30 p.m - 5.45 p.m. IAFFE Membership Meeting

5.45 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. IAFFE Authors: In Celebration.

6.30 p.m. ­ 7.30 p.m Remembering Rhonda--A Celebration of Rhonda Williams' Life and Work -

A1. Gay and Lesbian Rights

Chair: Susan Feiner, University of Southern Maine

STREAM B. CHILDREN, FAMILIES, THE STATE AND THE LABOUR MARKET

B1. Lone Mothers, Risks, Self-help and the State

Chair: Laurie Nisonoff, Hampshire College

• Robert Cherry, Brooklyn College, "Sexual Coercion and Limited Choices".
• Irene Dingeldey, Lisa Giddings University of Wisconsin - La Crosse and Susan Ulbricht, University of Leipzig, "Various stages of Commodification: Recent Shifts in Policies Directed at Single Mothers in the US andGermany after Unification".
• Robin Pope, University of Tennessee "Sex Differences in the Conditions under which Risks are Taken".
• Kanchana Ruwanpura and Jane Humphries, All Souls College,"Female-headed Households in the War-torn Districts of Eastern Sri Lanka".

STREAM C. FIRST WORLD/THIRD WORLD

C1. Perspectives on Globalization: Gender, Resource Access, Food Security and Sustainability

Chair: Mary Mellor, University of Northumbria

• Martha MacDonald, St. Mary's University, "Gender, Globalization and Fisheries".
• Siri Gerrard, University of Tromoso, "Gender, Globalization and Fisheries".
• Veena Goel, "Socio Economic Impact of Changing Agricultural Scenario in India".

STREAM D. "DOING" FEMINIST ECONOMICS: WRITING, TEACHING, THINKING

D1. Help and Inspiration: Amartya Sen and the Capability Approach

Chair: Bina Agarwal, University of Delhi

• Ingrid Robeyns, Wolfson College, Sen's Capability Approach and Feminist Concerns".
• Molly Scott Cato, Green Audit, "Absolute Limits to a Relative Definition of Poverty: Sen, Deprivation, and Feminization of Poverty and Environmental Destruction".
• Nahid Aslanbeigui, Monmouth University and Gale Summerfield, University of Illinois, "Risk, Gender, and Development in the 21st Century".

STREAM E. OLD ISSUES, NEW APPROACHES

E1. Video Showing: "Hammering it Out" by Vivian Price
"Hammering it Out" is a video about women working in the construction trades in the Los Angeles area highlighting the issue of race. There will be a discussion after the screening.

10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m. Tea and coffee break

11.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. Sessions

STREAM A. IDENTITIES: RACE, ETHNICITY, COLOR, CASTE AND SEXUALITY

A2. Gender, Color, Caste and Class: Theory and Policy

Chair: Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College

• Dymphina Andima -KARI (Regional Research Centre, Kisii), "Some aspects of women, gender, color, caste and class and strategies for change: Experiences from Kenya."
• Susan Hawthorne, Decolonising Economics: How Indigenous Knowledge Frameworks Provide Models for a New Kind of Economics".
• Julianne Malveaux, Last Word Productions Inc., "Women, Public Policy and the Culture Wars".
• Sakuntala Narasimhan, journalist, " Gender, Class and Caste Schisms in Affirmative Action Policies: The Curious Case of India's Women's Reservations Bill".
• Saliwe Kawewe, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, "Dynamics of Color, Social Stratification and Gendered Economic Roles for Zimbabwean Women: Strategies and Policy Implications Within the Context of Globalization".

STREAM B. CHILDREN, FAMILIES, THE STATE AND THE LABOUR MARKET

B2. Childcare

Chair: Lisa Giddings, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse

• Frances Woolley, Carleton University, "Why Pay Child Benefits to Mothers?"
• Suzanne Helburn, University of Colorado - Denver, "What It Will Take to Build an Adequate Childcare System - The US Experience".
• Hiroko Shiraishi, London School of Economics, "Dual Screening for Time off Work for Childcare".
• Anita Nyberg, National Institute for Working Life, "Restructuring of the Welfare State and the Dual Breadwinner Model".
• Gillian Hewitson, LaTrobe University, "Reading Childcare Policy in Australia: Economics Sexual Difference and Children".

STREAM C. FIRST WORLD/THIRD WORLD

C2. Small Businesses, Family Firms and Family Farms in the Global Economy

Chair: Janet Olusi, Obafemi Awolowo University

• Ingrid Schraner, University of Western Sydney, "Do New Family Farming Systems Require a Revision of our Understanding of Capitalism? The Case of a Vietnamese State Farm Transforming the Families of its former Workers into Family Farmers".
• Saniye Dedeoglu, "One for All and All for One: Some Observations on Family Labour and Small-scale Industry in Urban Turkey".
• Ruta Aidis, "The Sooner the Better? Gender and the Development of Lithuanian SMEs under Economic Transition".

STREAM D. "DOING" FEMINIST ECONOMICS: WRITING, TEACHING, THINKING

D2. Writing Values for Feminist Economics

Chair and discussant: Tiina Vainio, Helsinki School of Economics

• Nitasha Kaul, "Writing Economic Theory An(Other) way".
• Ellie Perkins, York University, "Discourse-based Valuation: Towards a Green Feminist Alternative to Globalized Markets".
• Cécile Sabourin, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, "Towards a New Economic Paradigme: The Story of an International Process Conducted by and with Women".
• Prue Hyman, Victoria University, "The Armed Forces and the Police: Barriers to Gender Equity/Integration - and Feminist Reservations about Breaking into these last Bastions".

STREAM E. OLD ISSUES, NEW APPROACHES

E2. Ten Years Beyond Economic Man

Chair: Diana Strassmann, Rice University

• Julie Nelson, Harvard University, 'The Separative Firm: Androcentric Bias and Business Ethics"
• William Darrity Jr., University of North Carolina, and Lisa Saunders, University of Massachusetts -Amherst, "Social Division and Economic Theory".
• Marianne Ferber, University of Illinois, "The State of Feminist Economics in the US".

1.00.p.m.- 2.00 p.m. Lunch

IAFFE Book Club will meet over lunch to discuss Blackwater by Swedish author Kerstin Ekman. Blackwater is a mystery/thriller with central character Annie Raft arriving in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater with her daughter Mia on Midsummer Eve, 1974, to join her lover Dan on a nearby commune. "On her journey through the deep forest, she stumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder - a crime that will remain unsolved for nearly twenty years, until the day Annie sees her grown daughter in the arms of the one man she glimpsed in the forest that eerie midsummer night ." This is a good novel with an interesting heroine and local color. Get it to read on the plane and join in our discussion. Discussion conveynors: Ulla Grapard, Colgate University, Jane Humphries, All Souls College, Charlotte Koren, NOVA, and Jean Shackelford, Bucknell University.

2.00 p.m.- 4.00 p.m. Sessions

STREAM A. IDENTITIES: RACE, ETHNICITY, COLOR, CASTE AND SEXUALITY

A3. Gender, Color, Caste in Asia

Chair: Rose Brewer, University of Minnesota

• Nandita Gupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, "Dalits Among Dalits: Female Subsistence Labour and Acess to Education and Occupational Mobility".
• Wendy Olsen, University of Bradford, "Empirical Research in South India on Labour Market Segmentation: Religious, Caste, Status and Social-Class Factors among Rural Residents in 1999".
• Ashwini Deshpande, Delhi School of Economics, "The Worst Half: Caste-Gender Overlap in India".
• Paula Kantor, University of Wisconsin, "Female Mobility in India: Its Determinants and Influence on Economic Outcomes".

STREAM B. CHILDREN, FAMILIES, THE STATE AND THE LABOUR MARKET

B3. Feminist Analyses of Employment Systems

Chair: Suzanne Helburn, University of Colorado - Denver

• Friederike Maier, Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft, Berlin "Gender and the Employment System--- A German Swedish Comparison".
• Leaza McSorley, Glasgow Caledonian University, "A Feminist Analysis of Minimum Wage Systems".
• Emily Thomson, Glasgow Caledonian University, "Assessing the Impact of Social Security Provision in the UK Labour Market: A Possible Segmentationist Approach".
• Rhonda Sharp, University of South Australia, and Ray Broomhill, University of Adelaide, "Changing Work, Changing Households".
• Elisabetta Addis, University of Rome and Francesca Bettio, Universita 'di Siena, "Wage Differentials: Italy and Europe in Comparison".

STREAM C. FIRST WORLD/THIRD WORLD

C3. Perspectives on Globalization: The New International Economic Order and its Institutions

Chair: Madhura Swaminathan, SRU, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcuta

• Isabella Bakker, York University, "Who built the Pyramids? Engendering the New International Economic and Financial Architecture".
• Irene Van Staveren, Institute of Social Studies, "Gender and Trade Indicators: Some Suggestions".
• Eugenia Correa, and Alejandra Arroya, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, "Obstacles to Feminine Leadership: Culture and Economy".
• Mary Young, Southwestern University, "Globalization, Economic Growth and Changes in Gender Wage Inequality".

STREAM D. "DOING" FEMINIST ECONOMICS: WRITING, TEACHING, THINKING

D3. Feminist Economics and Critical Realism

Chair and Commentator: Diana Strassmann, Rice University

• Tony Lawson, University of Cambridge, "Ontology and Feminist Theorizing".
• Drucilla Barker, Hollins University, "Emancipatory for Whom? A Comment on Critical Realism".
• Fabienne Peter, University of Basel, "Critical Realism and Feminist Epistemology".
• Karey Harrison,University of Southern Queensland, "Critical Realism and Emancipatory Practice"

STREAM E. OLD ISSUES, NEW APPROACHES

E3. New Insights into Gender Divisions

Chair: Alicia Giron, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México

• Sule Ozler, UCLA, and Erol Taymez, "Is there any Gender-biased Technical Change?"
• Deborah Levison, University of Minnesota, Karine S. Moe, Macalester College, and Felicia Knaul, "Marking Time: Gendered Definitions of Work and Implications for Schooling of Mexican Youth".
• Kristin Dale, Institute for Economics, "In-the-Home Training, Household Skills and Low Wages".

4.00 p.m.- 4.30 p.m. Tea and coffee break

4.30 p.m - 5.45 p.m. IAFFE Membership Meeting

5.45 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. IAFFE Authors: In Celebration. Introduced by Mariann Ferber, University of Illinois

6.30 p.m. ­ 7.30 p.m Remembering Rhonda--A Celebration of Rhonda Williams' Life and Work - Conveyor: Lee Badgett, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

All friends, colleagues, students, and others are invited to join us in remembering Rhonda Williams, a founding board member of IAFFE and Feminist Economics who died last fall. Please bring stories about Rhonda, memories of her teaching or other professional encounters, thoughts about her work, or anything about her that you would like to share with other friends.

7.30 p.m. Dinner

SUNDAY 24 JUNE (Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica)

9.00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Sessions

STREAM A. IDENTITIES: RACE, ETHNICITY, COLOR, CASTE AND SEXUALITY

A4.Religion, Citizenship and Ethnic Community

Chair: Mary King, Potland State University

• Roksana Bahramitash, "Explaining the Gender Gap in Indonesia: Theological versus Economic Explanations".
• Behrouz Tabrizi, St. Francis College, "Constitution, Women and the Process of Development: The Case of Iran".

STREAM B. CHILDREN, FAMILIES, THE STATE AND THE LABOUR MARKET

B4. Families, Communities and Labour Markets: A Historical Perspective

Chair: Emily Thomson, Glasgow Caledonian University

• Laurie Nisonoff, Hampshire College, "Workers, Families and Communities: Lessons from the 1930s".
• Elizabeth Angell, NIBR, "Gender Equality in Rural Labour Markets in Norway".
• Hilkka Pietila, "Nordic Welfare Society: A Strategy to Eradicate Poverty and Build Up Gender Equality".

STREAM C. FIRST WORLD/THIRD WORLD

C4.Women as Property, Women and Property

Chair: Prue Hyman, Victoria University

• Diane Monaco, Manchester College, "Trafficking in Women. Changing Demand Side Factors".
• Fatima Guven-Lisaniler, "Who is Natasha? A Profile of Sex Work and Female Sex Workers in Northern Cyprus".
• V.K. Ramachandran, SRU, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcuta, and Madhura Swaminathan, SRU, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcuta, "By Her Income Alone: Features of Households Dependent on Women Workers in a South Indian Village".

STREAM D. "DOING" FEMINIST ECONOMICS: WRITING, TEACHING, THINKING

D4. Pedagogy 2001: Feminist Economics and Feminist Literacy

Chair: Lisa Saunders, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• Robin Bartlett, Denison University, Mary Webb Prophets, Denison University, "Economic Information Literacy: The Case of Forensic Economics".
• KimMarie McGoldrick, University of Richmond and Peter W. Schuhmann, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, "Integrating Intra-University Web-Based Student Competitions into Principles Courses".
• Meg Lewis, College of St. Benedict, "Economic Literacy and the Internet: Data and the Economics Classroom".
• Jean Shackelford, Bucknell University, "Economic Literacy in the 21st Century: Challenges for feminist Economists".

STREAM E. CLASSIC PROBLEMS, NEW APPROACHES

E4 Generosity and Justice

Chair: Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• Hilda Bojer, University of Oslo, "Women and the Rawlsian Social Contract".
• Iulie Aslaksen, Statistics Norway, "Gender Constructions, the Possibility of a Generous Economic Actor, and Ethical Investment".
• Susan Himmelweit, Open University, "How do Mothers Decide? Some Implications for Economic Theory and Policy of an Alternative View of Maternal Decision Making".

10.30 a.m. - 11. 00 a.m. Tea and coffee break

11.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. Sessions

STREAM A. IDENTITIES: RACE, ETHNICITY, COLOR, CASTE AND SEXUALITY

A5. Concentric Circles of Oppression? The Family, The State and the International Economic Order

Chair: Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College

• Mary C. King, Portland State University, "Strong Families or Patriarchal Economies".
• Bharati Basu, Central Michigan University, "Women's Economic Dependence and Domestic Violence".
• Alicia Giron, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, and Marisa Gonzalez Marin, Universidad Nacional Autonoma "Globalization, Leadership, Gender and Pension".
• Kameri Christy-McMullin, University of Kansas, "Asset Building and Safety for Women: Stretching Social Work's Conceptual Framework."
• Karin Hirschmueller, Roswitha Hofmann, Karin Schoenpflug, University of Vienna, "Neo-liberalism goes Pervert between Gender Mainstreaming and Domestication: An Analysis of the Austrian Government,s Gender-Specific Policies from a Lesbian Point of View"

STREAM B. CHILDREN, FAMILIES, THE STATE AND THE LABOUR MARKET

B5. Caring

Chair: Rhonda Sharp, University of South Australia

• Gabrielle Meagher, University of Sydney, "Making Care Visible? Feminism, Social Services and the Challenge of New Public Sector Management Models".
• Ailsa McKay, Glasgow Caledonian University, "The Welfare Function of Emotional Labour: The Role of Caring in the Social Economy".
• Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Tele-Universite, "Work-family Balancing Measures: Results from Research Conducted in Canada with an Accent on Father's Participation in Family Issues".
• Agneta Stark, Linköping University, "Paid and Unpaid Work-Caring for the Elderly in Three European Countries".
• Elisabetta Addis, University of Rome, "Gender, Unpaid, and Paid Caring Work and European Welfare State Reforms".

STREAM C. FIRST WORLD/THIRD WORLD

C5. Labour Cost Differentials by Sex: Myths and Realities

Chair: Frances Woolley, Carleton University

• Sandra Lerda, Swedish University of Agricultural Science, "Efficiency and Competitiveness: Some Ideas for the Discussion of Difference in Labour Costs of Men and Women".
• Silvia Berger and Héctor Szretter, "Argentina: Labor Costs of Maternity and Child Care Protection".
• Rosalba Todaro, Lorena Godoy and Lais Abramo, "Labour Performance of Men and Women: The Opinion of Business Persons".
• Lais Abramo, "Labour Costs by Sex: Comparative Analysis of Five Latin American Countries".
• Manuela Tomei, "The Contribution of the Analysis of Labour Costs to the Enforcement of ILO Convention on Equal Income for Work of equal Value".

STREAM D. "DOING" FEMINIST ECONOMICS: WRITING, TEACHING, THINKING

D5. Feminist Economics and Gender Economics: Boundaries and Intersections

Chair: Drucilla Barker, Hollins University

• Ingrid Robeyns, Wolfson College, "A Neoclassical or a Babylonian Paradigm? Demarcating Gender Economics from Feminist Economics".
• Drucilla Barker, Hollins University and Susan Feiner, University of Southern Maine, "Economics, She Wrote: Teaching Feminist Economics".
• Barbara Hedderich, University of Mainz, "Novel Economics: Economic Woman meets 'Tough Gal'".
• Tiina Vainio, Helsinki School of Economics, "Import(ance) of Feminist Economics in Finland: Performing feminist politics into the body of neoclassical oblivion".

STREAM E. OLD ISSUES, NEW APPROACHES

E5. Time, Work, Space

Chair: Isabella Bakker, York University

• Cristina Carrasco, University of Barcelona, and Monica Serrano, University of Barcelona, "A Gender Labour Force Survey: A New Methodological Proposal for Time and Work Studies".
• Mary Mellor, University of Northumbria, "Challenging Orthodoxy and Opening up Spaces: Pathways to an Egalitarian and Sustainable Economy".
• Elisabeth Olson, FEMVISION, "Proposal for a Satellite Account of Household Production".
• Dinah Rodriguez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico, "Domestic Household Work and GDP".

1.00 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. Lunch

• Feminist Ecological Economics Discussion - Ellie Perkins, York University, conveyor

2.00 p.m. Farewell

2.30 p.m. Editors Retreat

With deep gratitude and thanks we wish to acknowledge the support of The Research Council of Norway, NOVA, The University of Oslo, The Ford Foundation, SIDA, and Bucknell University.