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Overview

Diane Elson is affiliated with the University of Essex in the United Kingdom, with a research focus primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, general health professions, political science and international relations, finance, and gender studies.

Their research interests encompass a range of contemporary social and political issues. Key topics covered in their publications include Latin American socio-political dynamics, global health care issues, social policy and reform studies, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, as well as gender politics and representation.

Elson has contributed to academic discourse through several recent papers:

  • Del dicho al hecho: la narrativa de género del FMI y los derechos humanos de las mujeres (2021), published in Derechos en Acción
  • Nilüfer Çagatay 1955-2022 In Memoriam (2023), published in Feminist Economics
  • Introduction to Special Issue on feminism and gender research in Japan (2021), published in The Japanese Political Economy

These publications reflect engagement with gender narratives, feminist economics, and regional political issues, indicating a multidisciplinary research approach.

Elson has collaborated with other researchers, including Corina Rodríguez Enríquez and Caren Grown. Their frequent choice of publication venues includes Derechos en Acción, Feminist Economics, and The Japanese Political Economy.

Best Publications

  • ‘Nimble Fingers Make Cheap Workers’: An Analysis of Women's Employment in Third World Export Manufacturing

    Diane Elson;Ruth Pearson

  • The Social Content of Macroeconomic Policies

    Diane Elson;Nilufer Cagatay

  • Labor Markets as Gendered Institutions: Equality, Efficiency and Empowerment Issues

    Diane Elson

  • The Subordination Of Women And The Internationalization Of Factory Production

    Diane Elson;Ruth Pearson

  • Male bias in the development process

    Diane Elson

  • Reading Capital Politically

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  • Gender Awareness in Modeling Structural Adjustment

    Diane Elson

  • Recognize, Reduce, and Redistribute Unpaid Care Work: How to Close the Gender Gap

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  • Gender and the global economic crisis in developing countries: a framework for analysis

    Diane Elson

  • The economic, the political and the domestic: Businesses, states and households in the organisation of production

    Diane Elson

  • Gender Justice, Human Rights, and Neo‐Liberal Economic Policies

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  • Gender-aware analysis and development economics

    Diane Elson

  • Introduction: The Capability Approach and Human Rights

    Polly Vizard;Sakiko Fukuda‐Parr;Diane Elson

  • transcending the impact of the financial crisis in the United Kingdom: towards plan F—a feminist economic strategy

    Ruth Pearson;Diane Elson

  • Gender budgets make cents : understanding gender responsive budgets

    Debbie Budlender;Diane Elson;Guy Hewitt;Tanni Mukhopadhyay

  • Male Bias in Structural Adjustment

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  • Integrating gender issues into national budgetary policies and procedures: some policy options

    Diane Elson

  • Questioning financial governance from a feminist perspective

    Brigitte Young;Isabella Bakker;Diane Elson

  • The Feminist Economics of Trade

    I.P. van Staveren;C. Grown;D. Elson;N. Cagatay

  • Appraising Recent Developments in the World Market for Nimble Fingers

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  • The impact of structural adjustment on women: concepts and issues

    Diane Elson

  • Budgeting for Women's Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW

    Diane Elson

  • Social Reproduction in the Global Crisis: Rapid Recovery or Long-Lasting Depletion?

    Diane Elson

  • Gender Equality and Economic Growth in the World Bank World Development Report 2006

    Diane Elson

  • International Financial Architecture: A view from the kitchen

    Diane Elson

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephanie Barrientos
Stephanie Barrientos University of Manchester
Frances Stewart
Frances Stewart University of Oxford
Giovanni Andrea Cornia
Giovanni Andrea Cornia University of Florence

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