The gendering of global finance
By: Libby Assassi.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230517936
Subjects: Financial institutions -- History; Sex discrimination against women -- History; Globalization -- History
Description: "This book examines the gendered structures of global financial markets. It maps out crucial economic, cultural and socio-historical processes which excluded women from (formal) financial activities in Britain and then on a global scale. The author argues that, with the contemporary deepening of financial markets, there has been a resultant shift as women are targeted world-wide as an emerging market for credit and finance, which has crucial implications for increased levels of insecurity and risk"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction * Period of Historical Change: The Organisation and Reorganisation of Gendered Relations * Credit and Finance in Transition: Women as Clogs to Progress * The Marginalisation of Women to the Realm of the Disorderly * Embedded Liberalism: Embedded Gendered Beliefs * Income Maintenance and Financial Inclusion * Financial Inclusion: A Deeper Share of Wallet? * Conclusion Introduction * Period of Historical Change: The Organisation and Reorganisation of Gendered Relations * Credit and Finance in Transition: Women as Clogs to Progress * The Marginalisation of Women to the Realm of the Disorderly * Embedded Liberalism: Embedded Gendered Beliefs * Income Maintenance and Financial Inclusion * Financial Inclusion: A Deeper Share of Wallet? * Conclusion.