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Print Price: $108.95

Format:
Hardback
352 pp.
6.125" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780190204235

Publication date:
April 2016

Imprint: OUP US


Scandalous Economics

Gender and the Politics of Financial Crises

Edited by Aida A. Hozic and Jacqui True

Series : Oxford Studies in Gender & International Relations

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.

Readership : Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate courses across the social sciences - e.g. Political Science/International Relations, Political Economy, Sociology/Criminology, Women's/Gender Studies, Development/International Studies. General Readers of Current Affairs and on the topic of Inequality, and Crisis - e.g. readers of The Economist, Financial Times, The Guardian and of magazines like Slate or Salon, The Nation, The New Yorker and Foreign Policy.

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
References
Index

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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.

Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese
The Political Economy of Violence against Women - Jacqui True
A Feminist Voyage through International Relations - J. Ann Tickner
Bodies of Violence - Lauren B. Wilcox
Enlisting Masculinity - Melissa T. Brown
From Global to Grassroots - Celeste Montoya
Gender and Private Security in Global Politics - Edited by Maya Eichler
Gender, Sex and the Postnational Defense - Annica Kronsell
Intelligent Compassion - Catia Cecilia Confortini
The Beauty Trade - Angela B. McCracken
The Politics of Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court - Louise Chappell
Who Is Worthy of Protection? - Meghana Nayak
Windows of Opportunity - Miriam J. Anderson

Special Features

  • Surveys the landscape of the ongoing globalized financial crisis and its consequences from the perspective of gender and feminist theory.
  • Breaks new ground by arguing that normalization of the current economic order in the face of its obvious breakdown(s) has been facilitated precisely by co-opting feminist and queer perspectives into the language of policy responses to the crisis.
  • Demonstrates how feminist political economy analysis contributes important insights to the critical enterprise in the fields of International Political Economy (IPE) and International Relations.
  • Analyzes scandals, media narratives and popular culture as THE gendered texts of the economic crisis.