Professor Maria Misra | Oxford Centre for Global History Lecture

Keble Fellow Professor Maria Misra will be delivering the Oxford Centre for Global History 4th Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture.

Femina Oeconomica: Global Gender Orders and the Rise of Neoliberal Woman

The decades between the 1970s to the 1990s brought striking transformation in the conceptualisation of women, gender, and the economy. New ideas, particularly connected with notions of ’empowerment’, presented a major challenge to prevalent views of the proper role of women in markets and households. In the case of the global South, women and girls came to be seen as the key drivers of development. This paper will explore the various dimensions of this moment, and will argue that it constitutes a major shift in the vision of the global gender order.