Screen LibraryScandalous economics : gender and the politics of financial crises /
"Of all of the lies, fragile alliances, and predatory financial dealings that have been revealed in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, we have yet to come to terms with the ways in which structural inequalities around gender and race factor into (and indeed make possible) the curr...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford studies in gender and international relations
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| Summary: |
"Of all of the lies, fragile alliances, and predatory financial dealings that have been revealed in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, we have yet to come to terms with the ways in which structural inequalities around gender and race factor into (and indeed make possible) the current economic order. Scandalous Economics is about "silences"--The astonishing neglect of gender and race in explanations of the Global Financial Crisis. But, it is also about "noises"--the sexual scandals and gendered austerity policies that have relegated public debate, and the crisis itself, into pol |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-324) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780190204235 0190204230 9780190204242 0190204249 |
| Index Number: | HQ1381 |
| CLC: |
F831.59-05 F069.9 |
| Call Number: | F069.9/S283 |
| Contents: | Making feminist sense of the global financial crisis / Aida A. Hozić and Jacqui True -- "Lehman brothers and sisters" : revisiting gender and myth after the financial crisis / Elisabeth Prügl -- The global financial crisis's silver bullet : women leaders and "leaning in" / Jacqui True -- Finance, financialization, and the production of gender / Adrienne Roberts -- Broken Britain : post-crisis austerity and the trouble with the troubled families programme / Daniela Tepe-Belfrage and Johnna Montgomerie -- Constitutionalizing austerity, disciplining the household : masculine norms of compet |