The aim of this monograph is ambitious: to combine the history of economic thought with a feminist approach to gender issues. The author intentionally put these two components in the title: the book presents the forgotten or overlooked contributions of women to economic thought. Therefore, the term “history” has been transformed into “herstory” in order to show the reader a new perspective in considering the evolution of the discipline. Rostek's study covers a particular period, the Romantic age, albeit the author includes eighteenth- and nineteenth-century contributions without making any distinction between the Enlightenment (the age of reason) and Romanticism (the age of sentiments), which might be disturbing for some scholars.
The book is divided into two parts. In the first and shorter part, the author explains some dichotomies that have affected the history of ideas as well as particular economic ideas themselves, such as the role of cultural...
