Accounting for Feminism

The book addresses contemporary global feminisms and their potential emancipatory implications for accounting, as a profession and as a tool or technology. It takes an overtly feminist position, informed by feminist theory, feminist methodology and feminist activism, to challenge constructions of gender and the resulting inequalities.

Kathryn Haynes is Professor of Accounting, Northumbria University, UK.

1. The case for feminisms and accounting, scoping the emancipatory potential of accounting 2. Early feminisms, accounting technologies and the professionalisation of accounting 3. Liberal feminism and equal opportunities within the accounting profession 4. Feminist difference and resistance: class, race, and intersectionality within accounting 5. Postcolonial, decolonial, transnational, Islamic and Muslim feminisms in accounting 6. Influences of poststructuralist feminisms on identities, sexualities and embodiment in accounting 7. Ecofeminisms, ethic of care and accounting as care 8. Integrating feminist theories, methodologies and activism: the emancipatory potential of feminist accounting Appendix.