Searching for a new quality – queer, gender and economics

Abstract

This article aims at pointing out two fundamental biases of contemporary economics and analyzing their consequences for constructing a vision of reality. Both androcentrism and heteronormativity not only prevent scholars from capturing the variety of social praxis, but also reproduce structures of domination and petrify discrimination areas. Methodological individualism reduces economical phenomena to the individual level, remaining blind to the wider socio-cultural conditions influencing human motivations and actions, especially in the face of limited commodities supply. Hence the questions: What could be the role of queer and gender studies for the development of economic sciences? Why not tackle economic issues also from a queer perspective?