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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
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 | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HG Finance H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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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