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Scandalous Economics: Gender and the Politics of Financial Crises
Scandalous Economics: Gender and the Politics of Financial Crises
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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 political oblivion. While feminist economists and movements such as Occupy Wall Street have pointed to the distributional inequalities that are an effect of financial deregulation, scholars haven't really grappled with the representational inequalities inherent in the way we view the politics of the market. For
example, capitalism won't be made more equitable simply by appointing women to leadership positions within financial firms or corporations. And the next crisis will not be averted if our understandings of gendered inequalities are framed by sexual scandals in media and popular culture. We need to
look at the activities and the privileges of the advantaged - the TED women of the crisis -- as much as the victimization of the disadvantaged - to fully grasp the interplay between gender and economy in this fragile age of restoration. Scandalous Economics breaks new ground by doing precisely
this. It argues that normalization of the post-GFC economic order in the face of its obvious breakdown(s) has been facilitated by co-optation of feminist and queer perspectives into national and international responses to the crisis. Scandalous Economics builds upon the Occupy movement and other critical analysis of the GFC to comprehensively examine gendered material, ideational and representational dimensions that have served to make the crisis and its effects, 'the new normal' in Europe and America as well as Latin America
and Asia.
Author: Aida A. Hozic
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/07/2016
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780190204242
Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2016
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 political oblivion. While feminist economists and movements such as Occupy Wall Street have pointed to the distributional inequalities that are an effect of financial deregulation, scholars haven't really grappled with the representational inequalities inherent in the way we view the politics of the market. For
example, capitalism won't be made more equitable simply by appointing women to leadership positions within financial firms or corporations. And the next crisis will not be averted if our understandings of gendered inequalities are framed by sexual scandals in media and popular culture. We need to
look at the activities and the privileges of the advantaged - the TED women of the crisis -- as much as the victimization of the disadvantaged - to fully grasp the interplay between gender and economy in this fragile age of restoration. Scandalous Economics breaks new ground by doing precisely
this. It argues that normalization of the post-GFC economic order in the face of its obvious breakdown(s) has been facilitated by co-optation of feminist and queer perspectives into national and international responses to the crisis. Scandalous Economics builds upon the Occupy movement and other critical analysis of the GFC to comprehensively examine gendered material, ideational and representational dimensions that have served to make the crisis and its effects, 'the new normal' in Europe and America as well as Latin America
and Asia.
Author: Aida A. Hozic
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/07/2016
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780190204242
Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2016
About the Author
Aida A. Hozic is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Florida.
