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Susan F. Feiner is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Professor of Economics. She is one of the founding scholars in the field of feminist economics. Most recently the author of the award winning Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work and Globalization (with Professor D. Barker, University of Michigan Press, 2004), she is now writing almost exclusively for a wider pubic audience: Women's Enews, Dollars&Sense, and The Women's Review of Books. Over the years Professor Feiner has written about gender and race bias in economics education, US economic history, psychoanalysis and economics, and religion and economics. She teaches courses on gender and economics, feminism and Marxism, political economy, as well as a number of required courses in the Women's and Gender Studies program. Feiner has been director of the USM Women's and Gender Studies program since September 2003.

Susan F. Feiner is director of women's studies and professor of economics at the University of Southern Maine. She is co-author of the 2004 book, Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work and Globalization.
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