Selection of rev. versions of papers of a conference held in Vienna, June 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Exchange and Deception: A Feminist Perspective 1 -- Chapter 0: Introduction by the Editors 3 -- Part 1: A Feminist Reading of Economic Thinking 11 -- 1.1 Adam Smith, Exchange, D eception and Women 11 -- Chapter 1.1.1: Adam Smith and Feminist Perspec tives on Exchange -- Caroline Gerschlager 13 -- Chapter 1.1.2: On Adam Smith and Gender Construction -- Monika Mokre 27 -- Chapter 1.1.3: Femi nism and the Economics of Deception: -- An Examination of Adam Smith's "Spirit of System" -- Julie A. Nelson 43 -- Chapter 1.1.4: Some Ear-pic king Comments on Adam Smith, Feminism and Deception -- Shaun P. Hargrea ves Heap 55 -- 1.2 The World of Economists/Economic Exchange: From the Old Testament to Gary Becker 59 -- Chapter 1.2.1: The Political Economy of the Divine -- Susan Feiner 61 -- Chapter 1.2.2: Dependency and Deni al in Conceptualizations of Economic Exchange -- Edith Kuiper 75 -- Cha pter 1.2.3: The Need of an Intergender Contract in Overlapping Generati ons (OLG) Models -- Doris A. Behrens, Gottfried Haber, -- Christian Ric hter, Karin Schonpflug 91 -- Chapter 1.2.4: On Dependency, Caring and C riticism. -- Richard Sturn 105 -- Part 2: (Self-)Deception and Female C areers. Two Case Studies 111 -- Chapter 2.1: Between "Gifts" and "Commo dities": An Anthropological Approach to the Austrian Academic Field -- Herta Nobauer 113 -- Chapter 2.2: Exchange, Deception and Disillusionme nt - Some Considerations on Women in the Arts and Media in Austria -- E lisabeth Mayerhofer 133 -- Part 3: Methodological Considerations 145 -- Chapter 3.1: Symmetry in Feminist Economics -- Esther-Mirjam Sent 147.