Edited by Aida A. Hozic and Jacqui True
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.
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
I. Scandalous Gendering
1. Aida Hozic and Jacqui True: Making Feminist Sense of the Global Financial Crisis
2. Elisabeth Prugl: Lehman Brothers and Sisters: Revisiting Gender and After the Financial Crisis
3. Jacqui True: The
Global Financial Crisis' Silver Bullet: Women Leaders and Leaning-In
4. Adrienne Roberts: Finance, Financialization and the Production of Gender
II. Scandalous Obfuscations
5. Daniela Tepe-Belfrage and Johnna Montgomerie: Broken Britain: Post-Crisis Austerity and the Trouble with
the Troubled Families Program
6. Ian Bruff and Stefanie Wohl: Constitutionalizing Austerity, Disciplining the Household - Masculine Norms of Competitiveness and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in the Eurozone
7. Juanita Elias: Whose Crisis? Whose Recovery? Lessons Learnt (and Not) from the
Asian Crisis
8. Guillermina Seri: "To double oppression, double rebellion": Women, Capital and Crisis in 'Post-neoliberal' Latin America
III. Scandalous Sex
9. Celeste Montoya: Exploits and Exploitations: A Micro and Macro Analysis of the 'DSK Affair'
10. Aida Hozic: We,
Neoliberals
11. Penny Griffin: Gender, Finance and Embodiments of Crisis
IV. Scandalizing Reimaginings
12. Anna Aganthangelou: Global Raciality of Capitalism and 'Primitive' Accumulation: (Un) Making the Death Limit
13. Nicola Smith: Towards a Queer Political Economy of
Crisis
14. Wanda Vrasti: Self-Reproducing Movements and the Enduring Challenge of Materialist Feminism
Marieke De Goede: Afterword: Gendering the Crisis
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Aida A. Hozic is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Florida. Jacqui True is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Monash University.