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The current discourse on development, gender, and the environment has emerged from a convergence of feminist and environmentalist critiques of economic development. l This discourse is dominated by two paradigms: Women in Development (WID) and ecofeminism. 2 Although the two paradigms have been influential in advancing women's issues in economics, this influence has been limited by the lack of understanding of the institutional nature of gender among the proponents of the paradigms. This lack of recognition is due to the essentialist characterization of women that underlies both paradigms. In WID, women are treated as rational beings who readily respond to economic incentives within any cultural setting; in ecofeminism, women possess a supra-material bond with nature that endows them with a privileged understanding of the environment and an innate ability to care for it regardless of the specific …