| ID | 139585 |
| Title Proper | Sexy money |
| Other Title Information | the hetero-normative politics of global finance |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Brassett, James ; Rethel, Lena |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The article develops a critical analysis of gendered narratives of global finance. The post-subprime crisis equation of unfettered global finance with the excessive masculinity of individual bankers is read in line with a wider gender narrative. We discuss how hetero-normative relations between men and women underpin financial representations through three historical examples: war bond advertising, Hollywood films about bankers, and contemporary aesthetic representations of female politicians who advocate for austerity. A politics emerges whereby gender is used to encompass a/the spectrum between embedded and disembedded finance, approximate to the divide between oikonomia and chrematistics. The apparently desirable ‘marriage’ between the state and finance that ensues carries several ambiguities – precisely along gender lines – that point to a pervasive limit: the myth of embedded liberalism in the imagination of global finance. |
| `In' analytical Note | Review of International Studies Vol. 41, No.3; Jul 2015: p. 429-449 |
| Journal Source | Review of International Studies Vol: 41 No 3 |
| Key Words | Global Finance ; Sexy Money ; Hetero - Normative Politics ; Post - Subprime Crisis ; Hetero - Normative Relations ; Women Underpin ; Embedded and Disembedded Finance |