This essay is the introduction to the History of Political Economy Annual Supplement on “Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives.” We first reflect on the historiography of economics and the relative absence of women and gender in the mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the...

This essay is the introduction to the History of Political Economy Annual Supplement on 'Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives.' We first reflect on the historiography of economics and the relative absence of women and gender in the mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the...