Mary Ann has a helpful suggestion.  Charting links from closed 
truncated chains to their rebirth in later thinkers.  Terence Hutchison's 
wonderful _Before Adam Smith_ is wonderful for identifying many  
'new' hot ideas in 20th century economics already in economics, as his 
title has it, _Before Adam Smith_ -- e.g. uncertainty, undesigned 
order, etc.  Again, I think recovering these links can help us think 
again about the significance of these ideas.  Certainly in very different 
context, of whatever kind -- gender or not, ideas will have a quite 
different significance. 
 
Greg Ransom 
Dept. of Philosophy 
UC-Riverside