Kirsten Madden is Associate Professor of Economics at Millersville University, USA.

Robert W. Dimand is a Professor of Economics at Brock University, Canada.

Introduction Part I Beginning Prior to 1850 Chapter 1 Indian Women's Agency through Indian Women's Literature Sheetal Bharat Chapter 2 English Women's Economic Thought in the 1790s: Domestic Economy, Married Women's Economic Dependence, and Access to Professions Joanna Rostek Chapter 3 British Women on the British Empire Janet Seiz Chapter 4 Harriet Taylor Mill, Mary Paley Marshall and Beatrice Potter Webb: Women Economists and Economists' Wives Virginie Gouverneur Chapter 5 Japanese Women's Economics, 1818-2005 Aiko Ikeo Part II Beginning in the Late 19th Century Chapter 6 Contextualizing women's economic thought in late Imperial Russia and in the early years of Revolution: 1870-1920 Anna Klimina Chapter 7 Is Equal Pay Worth It? Beatrice Potter Webb's, Millicent Garrett Fawcett's and Eleanor Rathbone's changing arguments Cléo Chassonnery- Zaïgouche Chapter 8 The Economic Thought of the Women's Co-Operative Guild Kirsten Madden and Joe Persky Chapter 9 Anecdotes of Discrimination: Barriers to Women's Participation in Economic Thought During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Kirsten Madden Chapter 10 The Point is to Change It: Three Lives of Applied Marxism Zoe Sherman Part III Beginning in the early 20th Century Chapter 11 Women Economists in the Academy: Struggles and Strategies, 1900-1940 Mary Ann Dzuback Chapter 12 Daughters of Commons: Wisconsin Women and Institutionalism Marianne Johnson Chapter 13 Women Economists of Promise? Six Hart, Schaffner and Marx Prize Winners in the Early Twentieth Century Kirsten Madden Chapter 14 Early Women Economists at Columbia University: Contributions in the Struggle for Labor Protection in the Lochner Era Clara Elisabetta Mattei Chapter 15 Chinese Economic Development and Chinese Women Economists: A Study of Overseas Doctoral Dissertations Yue Xiao Part IV Spanning the Mid-20th Century Chapter 16 Austrian School Women Economists Giandomenica Becchio Chapter 17 Placing women's economics within Soviet economic discourse: 1920s - 1991 Anna Klimina Chapter 18 Ursula Hicks' and Vera Lutz's contributions to development finance Lucy Brillant Chapter 19 The Two Faces of Economic Forecasting in Italy: Vera Cao Pinna and Almerina Ipsevich Marcella Corsi and Giulia Zacchia Part V Beginning mid-20th, Extending into the 21st Century Chapter 20 The First 100 Years of Female Economists in Sub-Saharan Africa Lola Fowler and Robert W. Dimand Chapter 21 Women Economists of the Arab Homeland Talia Yousef and Robert W. Dimand Chapter 22 The Invisible Ones: Women at CEPAL (1948-2017) Rebeca Gómez Betancourt and Camila Orozco Espinel Chapter 23 Women's employment in the Informal Sector in Developing Countries: Contributions of Lourdes Beneria and Martha (Marty) Chen Farida Chowdhury Khan Chapter 24 Women's neoclassical models of marriage, 1972-2015 Shoshana Grossbard