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"Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession" by Ann Mari May is a book that explores the historical discrimination faced by women in the field of economics. The book examines the disparities between men and women in economics compared to other disciplines, and how the professionalization of economics marginalized the contributions of early women members of the American Economic Association. It also discusses the intersectional barriers faced by women of color. The book provides valuable insights into the history of gender discrimination in economics and its relevance to contemporary concerns about diversity and inclusion. [Extracted from the article]

Chapter Seven then shifts attention to the nature of the sympathetic consumer today, describing three crucial features, tracing parallels with earlier versions, and identifying the close links between consumer activism and business interests in profit. Chapter Four highlights the techniques and practices (the ways of seeing) that were bound up with sympathetic consumption, and Chapter Five reconstructs what Skotnicki takes to be the moral arguments implied by different versions of consumer activism. The archival research permits Skotnicki to illustrate how these groups addressed consumers across different constituencies, envisioning the consumer as the hub of a system of production, distribution, and exchange, where consumer sympathy with the exploited could motivate significant institutional change. Chapter Three shifts attention to turn-of-the-twentieth-century consumer activists, including the National Consumers' League and the consumer cooperatives, which sought to install consumer cooperative wholesalers and retailers in the place of the sullied shopkeeper, to facilitate moral consumption. [Extracted from the article]

The nature of Derrida's longstanding interest in the relation between Levisnasian ethics and Kantian moral and political philosophy is explored. Focusing on Derrida's 'A Word of Welcome' in Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas, that maintains that Derrida's analysis is motivated by a more fundamental question, namely, the nature of the relation between ethics an politics.