Hello everyone – this is your newest guest blogger, reporting for duty! My name is Allison Martell, and I write about feminism and economics at Economic Woman. I also contribute to the group blog over at Shameless Magazine. Like Shameless, I’m based in Toronto, where I supplement my stats homework with cycling, vegetarian cooking, and productivity geekery.
I started Economic Woman in reckless moment shortly after WAM! 2008. I say reckless because I’m only marginally qualified to write about this stuff – most econ bloggers are professors, or at least graduate students, and my only relevant experience is as a freelance journalist and undergraduate economics student. But economics can be a lonely discipline for a woman, a feminist, really any sort of leftist. I wanted a place to chronicle my own intellectual development, and I also wanted to try to bridge the gap between the feminist and economic blogospheres.
Thanks for all the great input – you folks have made planning my posts much easier. Over the next couple weeks I’ll do my best to address your questions and suggestions. I’ll also point you towards some further reading and online resources about economics and feminist economics, and introduce you to some other fabulous bloggers.