Theory and politics: lessons from feminist economics
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal
ISSN: 0951-3574
Article publication date: 1 August 1995
Abstract
Investigates two issues raised by D.C. Moore: the apparent failure of critical accounting theory to launch and sustain a critical programme and relative lack of critical accounting activity in the USA. These concerns are related in that radicalization and change of one′s own academic discipline would seem to be one of the highest‐priority political activities to be undertaken by critical theorists. Offers feminist economics as an example of a critical social theory that meets Moore′s four criteria for successful criteria endeavour and is applicable to accounting research. Compares the feminist economic critique with critiques of accounting by Cooper, and by Shearer and Arrington, based on the French feminist philosophers. The two approaches differ in goals and politics. Suggests that the experience of feminist economics in reforming economics also provides insights into the slow growth of critical accounting theory in the USA.
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Citation
Reiter, S.A. (1995), "Theory and politics: lessons from feminist economics", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 8 No. 3, pp. 34-59. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513579510094688
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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