This course provides a critical overview of economic theories, methods and economic policy- debates from a gender perspective. The course is designed to cover major debates in gender economics relevant to developed and developing countries. The course analyzes orthodox economic theory and provides students with a gender-critique while offering students the chance to explore alternative feminist economic theory and apply these different theoretical understandings to concrete examples in the real world. The course spans essential topics such as gender and the history of economic thought, gender and households, women, gender and labor market processes, macroeconomics and gender as well as several other selected topics in gender and development.