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The Gendering of Global Finance
Libby Assassi
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Description for The Gendering of Global Finance
Hardcover. This book explores the gendered nature of the historical emergence of modern finance markets and their expansion to a now global scale. It analyses the ways in which women were and still are marginalized in terms of financial activity and associated structures of power which play a critical role in shaping the contemporary global political economy. Num Pages: 222 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JPS; KCM; KCP; KFF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
This book explores the gendered nature of the historical emergence of modern finance markets and their expansion to a now global scale. It analyses the ways in which women were and still are marginalized in terms of financial activity and associated structures of power which play a critical role in shaping the contemporary global political economy.
This book explores the gendered nature of the historical emergence of modern finance markets and their expansion to a now global scale. It analyses the ways in which women were and still are marginalized in terms of financial activity and associated structures of power which play a critical role in shaping the contemporary global political economy.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
215
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230517936
SKU
V9780230517936
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Libby Assassi
LIBBY ASSASSI is Associate Fellow of the Centre of Gender Studies at Sussex, UK and Associate Lecturer at Open University, UK. She has co-edited Global Regulations: Managing Crises after the Imperial Turn and After Deregulation: The Global Financial System.
Reviews for The Gendering of Global Finance
'An impressive contribution of this book is its rigorous deployment of gender as an analytical category that connects the dots between the everyday micro-practices of financial life and structural features of the global economy. Its rich historical detail reminds us that gendered relations of credit and finance have transformed over time and across myriad forms of political and economic organization.' ... Read more