Queer economics
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Joyce Jacobsen and Adam Zeller.
Contributors: Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Zeller, Adam.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415771702; 9780415771696
Subjects: Gays -- United States -- Economic conditions; Gay consumers -- United States; Lesbian consumers -- United States; Homosexuality -- Economic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Why queer economics?; title: The economics of sexual orientation: establishing a research agenda / M.V. Lee Badgett and Rhonda M. Williams; title: Gender, sexuality, and sexual orientation: all in the feminist family? / M.V. Lee Badgett; title: Opening questions / Colleen Lamos; title: Barriers to the study of queer economics; title: Why aren't more economists doing research on sexual orientation? / Marieka M. Klawitter; title: Uncovering a quantitative history of gays and lesbians in the United States / Kyle D. Kauffman; title: Queer demography; title: Demographics of the gay and lesbian population in the United States: evidence from available systematic data sources / Dan Black, Gary Gates, Seth Sanders, and Lowell Taylor; title: Using the census to profile same-sex cohabitation: a research note / Voon Chin Phua and Gayle Kaufman; title: Lesbians and gay men flirting with/disengaging from vital statistics: same sex relationships and the NZ census 1971/2001 / Prue Hyman; title: Queer political economy; title: Queer political economy: the social articulation of desire / Richard R. Cornwall; title: Lesbian economics / Jeffner Allan; title: Queer economic history; title: Capitalism and gay identity / John D'Emilio; title: The sexual division of labor, sexuality and lesbian/gay liberation: towards a Marxist-feminist analysis of sexuality in U.S. capitalism / Julie Matthaei; title: Queer labor economics; title: The wage effects of sexual orientation discrimination / M.V. Lee Badgett; title: Effects of sexual preferences on earnings in the Netherlands / Erik Plug and Peter Berkhout; title: Sexual orientation discrimination in hiring / Doris Weichselbaumer; title: Queer consumer economics; title: The gay marketing movement / Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed; title: We're here, we're queer, and we're going shopping! A critical perspective on the accommodation of gays and lesbians in the U.S. marketplace / Lisa Peñaloza; title: Excuse me sir? May I help you and your boyfriend?: salespersons' differential treatment of homosexual and straight customers / Andrew S. Walters and Maria-Cristina Curran; title: Queer urban economics; title: Gentrification and gay neighborhood formation in New Orleans: a case study / Lawrence Knopp; title: Finding oneself, losing oneself: the lesbian and gay "scene" as a paradoxical space / Gill Valentine and Tracey Skelton; title: Queer public finance; title: Wedding bell blues: the income tax consequences of legalizing same-sex marriage; title: What if? The legal consequences of marriage and the legal needs of lesbian and gay male couples / David L. Chambers.