Susan F. Feiner, Ph.D.

Susan F. Feiner is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Professor of Economics. She is one of the founding scholars in the field of feminist economics. Most recently the author of the award winning book Liberating Economics: feminist perspectives on families, work and globalization (UMichigan, 2004 with Professor D. Barker) she is now writing almost exclusively for a wider pubic audience. She currently writes for Women's Enews, Dollars&Sense, and The Women's Review of Books. Over the years Professor Feiner has written about gender and race bias in economics education, US economic history, psychoanalysis and economics, and religion and economics. She teaches courses on gender and economics, feminism and Marxism, political economy, as well as a number of required courses in the Women's and Gender Studies program. Feiner has been director of the USM Women's and Gender Studies program since September 2003.

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University of Massachusetts, Ph.D., 1981
Evergreen State College, B.A., 1975

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