Feminist theory suggests that race-based discrimination bears more resemblance to gender-based discrimination than sex-based discrimination, for the foundations of racial identities are as culturally rooted as gender. Does a feminist viewpoint necessarily improve our ability to examine and address racial inequality? To what extent would its methods differ from those of traditional economics? Would it open us to a wider range of questions not considered by economists who view the world through conventional lenses? Specifically, the authors address the question whether such an approach is likely to illuminate the processes whereby socially constructed racial differentiation generates inequality.
