A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
Edited by Robert W. Dimand, Mary Ann Dimand and Evelyn L. Forget
- A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Edith Abbott
- Ruth Alice Allen
- Shirley Ann Montag Almon
- Elizabeth Faulkner Baker
- Emily Greene Balch
- Käthe Bauer-Mengelberg
- Hilde Behrend
- Cora Berliner
- Krishna Bharadwaj
- Huguette Biaujeaud
- Clementina Black
- Rosalind (Hyman) Blauer
- Barbara Bodichon
- Olga Nikolajevna Bondareva
- Helen Dendy Bosanquet
- Ester Boserup
- Emilia Jessie Boucherett
- Marian E.A. Bowley
- Mary Jean Bowman
- Dorothy Stahl Brady
- Sophonisba Breckinridge
- Elizabeth Read Brown
- Martha Stephanie Browne
- Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns
- Elizabeth Beardsley Butler
- Helen Stuart Campbell
- Agatha Louisa Chapman
- Margaret Cole
- Clara Elizabeth Collet
- Katharine Coman
- Costanza Costantino
- Caroline Wells Healey Dall
- Julie-Victoire Daubié
- Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids
- Katherine Bement Davis
- Marie Dessauer
- Elisabeth Caroline van Dorp
- Eleanor Lansing Dulles
- Raya Dunayevskaya
- Minnie Throop England
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- Ann Fetter Friedlaender
- Rose Director Friedman
- Elizabeth Waterman Gilboy
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Fanny Ginor
- Kirsten Gloerfelt-Tarp
- Selma Evelyn Fine Goldsmith
- Dorothy C. Goodwin
- Margaret Gordon
- Marina Goudi
- Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson
- Lucy Barbara (Bradby) Hammond
- Amy Hewes
- Ursula Hicks
- Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt
- B.L. Hutchins
- Mary Quayle Innis
- Alice Hanson Jones
- Florence Kelley
- Susan Myra Kingsbury
- Karin Kock
- Anna Koutsoyiannis
- Hazel Kyrk
- KÃ_the Leichter
- Charlotte Leubuscher
- Helene Lieser
- Gertrud von Lovasy
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Jane Haldimand Marcet
- Mary Paley Marshall
- Harriet Martineau
- Jean Trepp McKelvey
- Theresa Schmid McMahon
- Mary Meynieu
- Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill
- Ilse Schüller Mintz
- Natalie Moszkowska
- Selma J. Mushkin
- Margaret Good Myers
- Maria Negreponti-Delivani
- Mabel Newcomer
- Jessica Blanche Peixotto
- Virginia Penny
- Edith Tilton Penrose
- The Philip Family
- Vera Cao Pinna
- Michèle A. Pujol
- Eleanor Rathbone
- Margaret Gilpin Reid
- Joan Robinson
- Clémence-Auguste Royer
- Lise Salvas-Bronsard
- Koko (Takako) Sanpei
- Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter
- Anna Jacobson Schwartz
- Nancy L. Schwartz
- Hannah Robie Sewall
- Kate Sheppard
- Irene M. Spry
- Maria Szecsi
- Setsu Tanino
- Maria da Conceição Tavares
- Marguerite Thibert
- Mabel Frances Timlin
- Cläre Tisch
- Flora Tristan
- Mary Abby Van Kleeck
- Priscilla Wakefield
- Phyllis Ann Wallace
- Barbara Ward
- Caroline Farrar Ware
- Beatrice Potter Webb
- Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury
- Maxine Bernard Yaple Sweezy Woolston
- Barbara Wootton
- Frieda Wunderlich
- Kikue Yamakawa
- Anna Pritchett Youngman
- Irini (Rena) Zafiriou
Raya Dunayevskaya
M.C. Howard and J.E. King
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149 Raya Dunayevskaya (1910–87)1 More philosopher and political theorist than economist, Raya Dunayevskaya is best known for her humanist interpretation of Marxism and her characterization of Soviet society as a form of ‘state capitalism’. Born in a small Ukrainian village near the Romanian border on 1 May 1910, she emigrated to the USA with her family in 1922 and soon became active in the revolutionary movement in Chicago. Dunayevskaya was expelled from the youth section of the US Communist Party in 1928, and joined the Trotskyists. In 1937–39 she served as Trotsky’s Russian-language secretary in his exile in Mexico, breaking with him in 1939 on the question of the class nature of the Soviet Union. Under the pseudonym of Freddie Forest she was associated with C.L.R. James (J.R. Johnson) in the Johnson–Forest Tendency, which constituted the state capitalist opposition fraction in American Trotskyism during the 1940s. Dunayevskaya later established her own political organization, propagating the ideas of Marxism–Humanism in a series of books and pamphlets and in the monthly paper News and Letters. She died in Chicago on 9 June 1987. Fourteen volumes of her personal papers were issued on microfilm in 1988– 89 as The Raya Dunayevskaya Collection by Wayne State University Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs. Based on her early reading and translation of Marx’s 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, which were not widely available in the west until the 1960s, Dunayevskaya argued that there was a profound continuity in Marx’s...
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- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Edith Abbott
- Ruth Alice Allen
- Shirley Ann Montag Almon
- Elizabeth Faulkner Baker
- Emily Greene Balch
- Käthe Bauer-Mengelberg
- Hilde Behrend
- Cora Berliner
- Krishna Bharadwaj
- Huguette Biaujeaud
- Clementina Black
- Rosalind (Hyman) Blauer
- Barbara Bodichon
- Olga Nikolajevna Bondareva
- Helen Dendy Bosanquet
- Ester Boserup
- Emilia Jessie Boucherett
- Marian E.A. Bowley
- Mary Jean Bowman
- Dorothy Stahl Brady
- Sophonisba Breckinridge
- Elizabeth Read Brown
- Martha Stephanie Browne
- Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns
- Elizabeth Beardsley Butler
- Helen Stuart Campbell
- Agatha Louisa Chapman
- Margaret Cole
- Clara Elizabeth Collet
- Katharine Coman
- Costanza Costantino
- Caroline Wells Healey Dall
- Julie-Victoire Daubié
- Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids
- Katherine Bement Davis
- Marie Dessauer
- Elisabeth Caroline van Dorp
- Eleanor Lansing Dulles
- Raya Dunayevskaya
- Minnie Throop England
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- Ann Fetter Friedlaender
- Rose Director Friedman
- Elizabeth Waterman Gilboy
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Fanny Ginor
- Kirsten Gloerfelt-Tarp
- Selma Evelyn Fine Goldsmith
- Dorothy C. Goodwin
- Margaret Gordon
- Marina Goudi
- Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson
- Lucy Barbara (Bradby) Hammond
- Amy Hewes
- Ursula Hicks
- Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt
- B.L. Hutchins
- Mary Quayle Innis
- Alice Hanson Jones
- Florence Kelley
- Susan Myra Kingsbury
- Karin Kock
- Anna Koutsoyiannis
- Hazel Kyrk
- KÃ_the Leichter
- Charlotte Leubuscher
- Helene Lieser
- Gertrud von Lovasy
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Jane Haldimand Marcet
- Mary Paley Marshall
- Harriet Martineau
- Jean Trepp McKelvey
- Theresa Schmid McMahon
- Mary Meynieu
- Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill
- Ilse Schüller Mintz
- Natalie Moszkowska
- Selma J. Mushkin
- Margaret Good Myers
- Maria Negreponti-Delivani
- Mabel Newcomer
- Jessica Blanche Peixotto
- Virginia Penny
- Edith Tilton Penrose
- The Philip Family
- Vera Cao Pinna
- Michèle A. Pujol
- Eleanor Rathbone
- Margaret Gilpin Reid
- Joan Robinson
- Clémence-Auguste Royer
- Lise Salvas-Bronsard
- Koko (Takako) Sanpei
- Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter
- Anna Jacobson Schwartz
- Nancy L. Schwartz
- Hannah Robie Sewall
- Kate Sheppard
- Irene M. Spry
- Maria Szecsi
- Setsu Tanino
- Maria da Conceição Tavares
- Marguerite Thibert
- Mabel Frances Timlin
- Cläre Tisch
- Flora Tristan
- Mary Abby Van Kleeck
- Priscilla Wakefield
- Phyllis Ann Wallace
- Barbara Ward
- Caroline Farrar Ware
- Beatrice Potter Webb
- Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury
- Maxine Bernard Yaple Sweezy Woolston
- Barbara Wootton
- Frieda Wunderlich
- Kikue Yamakawa
- Anna Pritchett Youngman
- Irini (Rena) Zafiriou