This book explores the gendered nature of the historical emergence of modern finance markets and their expansion to a now global scale. It analyses the ways in which women were and still are marginalized in terms of financial activity and associated structures of power which play a critical role in shaping the contemporary global political economy.

'An impressive contribution of this book is its rigorous deployment of gender as an analytical category that connects the dots between the everyday micro-practices of financial life and structural features of the global economy. Its rich historical detail reminds us that gendered relations of credit and finance have transformed over time and across myriad forms of political and economic organization.' - Professor Mary Condon, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada

Autorentext
LIBBY ASSASSI is Associate Fellow of the Centre of Gender Studies at Sussex, UK and Associate Lecturer at Open University, UK. She has co-edited Global Regulations: Managing Crises after the Imperial Turn and After Deregulation: The Global Financial System.

Inhalt
Introduction to the Gendering of Global Finance Period of Historical Change and the 'New' Social Ontology Property and Gender: Irrational Women and Rational Men The Emergence of Gendered Credit and Financial Institutions From Formal Financial Institutions and Orderly Men to Informal Markets and the Disorderly Women Global Financial Markets: 'Add women and stir'? Deepening the Circuits of Credit - Gender and 'a Deeper Share of Wallet' Bibliography Index