Beyond the Business Case: A Community Economies Approach to Gender, Development And Social Economy

Suzanne Bergeron
Stephen Healy

In this paper we explore how international development discourse has placed women at the center of a "smart economics" approach to economic development. While we are heartened by development discourse's new found interest in economies of care and social reproduction, we are troubled by the way that an essentialized conception of gender is attached to a economic growth as usual agenda.