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Please be advised that this information was generated on 2016-05-12 and may be subject to change. This book brings together 14 contributions that collectively represent the building blocks for a feminist economics of international trade. It shows how the tools of economic analysis, informed by gender analysis, can be used to examine the interaction of trade relations and gender relations. It is motivated by a concern to reduce gender inequality and increase the power and well-being of poor women in poor countries. It is concerned not only with the impact of trade on gender inequality, but also with the impact of gender inequality on trade. Gender pay gaps and gender segregation in employment are a key focus, but gender analysis tells us that these labor market inequalities are underpinned by a deep structural inequality between the paid production of goods and services, and the unpaid social reproduction of the labor supply, households, and communities. Feminist economics argues that gender inequality stems from a system of gendered power relations that permeate the whole economy and underpin norms for mal