Scandalous economics: gender and the politics of financial crises

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. Scandalous Economics breaks new ground by doing precisely this

Cover -- Series -- Scandalous Economics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Part I: Scandalous Gendering -- 1. Making Feminist Sense of the Global Financial Crisis -- 2. "Lehman Brothers and Sisters": Revisiting Gender and Myth after the Financial Crisis -- 3. The Global Financial Crisis's Silver Bullet: Women Leaders and "Leaning In" -- 4. Finance, Financialization, and the Production of Gender -- Part II: Scandalous Obfuscations -- 5. Broken Britain: Post-​Crisis Austerity and the Trouble with the Troubled Families Programme

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. Scandalous Economics breaks new ground by doing precisely this.