The Gendering of Global Finance [electronic resource] /
Assassi, L.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Period of Change: Historical Context; 3 Property and Gender: Irrational Women and Rational Men; 4 Emergence of Gendered Credit and Financial Institutions; 5 From Formal Financial Institutions and Orderly Men to Informal Markets and Disorderly Women; 6 Global Financial Markets: 'Add Women and Stir'; 7 Deepening the Circuits of Credit: Gender and 'a Deeper Share of Wallet'; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-210) and index.
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.
Economic policy.
Political economy.
International relations.
Political sociology.
Finance.
Sociology.
Economic Policy.
International Political Economy.
International Relations.
Political Sociology.
Finance, general.
Gender Studies.