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Sexy money : the hetero-normative politics of global finance

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Brassett, James and Rethel, Lena (2015) Sexy money : the hetero-normative politics of global finance. Review of International Studies, 41 (3). pp. 429-449. doi:10.1017/S0260210514000461

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0260210514000461

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Abstract

The article develops a critical analysis of gendered narratives of global finance. The post-subprime crisis equation of unfettered global finance with the excessive masculinity of individual bankers is read in line with a wider gender narrative. We discuss how hetero-normative relations between men and women underpin financial representations through three historical examples: war bond advertising, Hollywood films about bankers, and contemporary aesthetic representations of female politicians who advocate for austerity. A politics emerges whereby gender is used to encompass a/the spectrum between embedded and disembedded finance, approximate to the divide between oikonomia and chrematistics. The apparently desirable ‘marriage’ between the state and finance that ensues carries several ambiguities – precisely along gender lines – that point to a pervasive limit: the myth of embedded liberalism in the imagination of global finance.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
H Social Sciences > HG Finance
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 , Women in finance , Sex role, Sexual division of labor, Financial crises, Feminist economics
Journal or Publication Title: Review of International Studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 0260-2105
Official Date: July 2015
Dates:
DateEvent
July 2015Published
9 January 2015Available
10 March 2014Accepted
Volume: 41
Number: 3
Page Range: pp. 429-449
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210514000461
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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