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Malthus and gender

Malthus and gender This article re‐reads Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population for his explicit discussion of men and women, masculinity and femininity. A feminist reading is possible, but not undertaken here. Rather, the purpose is simply to demonstrate how ‘gender’ was Malthus's own object of inquiry. Historical actors, perhaps especially economic thinkers, often considered gender far more fully and explicitly than almost all subsequent analysts of them. It therefore remains not just insufficient, but empirically erroneous not to inquire into how ‘men’ and ‘women’ were considered, constructed, instructed, symbolised or valued by the historical actors we study, including those in the political economy canon. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Economic History Review Wiley

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2022 Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd
ISSN
0004-8992
eISSN
1467-8446
DOI
10.1111/aehr.12250
Publisher site
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Abstract

This article re‐reads Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population for his explicit discussion of men and women, masculinity and femininity. A feminist reading is possible, but not undertaken here. Rather, the purpose is simply to demonstrate how ‘gender’ was Malthus's own object of inquiry. Historical actors, perhaps especially economic thinkers, often considered gender far more fully and explicitly than almost all subsequent analysts of them. It therefore remains not just insufficient, but empirically erroneous not to inquire into how ‘men’ and ‘women’ were considered, constructed, instructed, symbolised or valued by the historical actors we study, including those in the political economy canon.

Journal

Australian Economic History ReviewWiley

Published: Nov 1, 2022

Keywords: gender; political economy; stadial theory; world history

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