The gendering of global finance

• Tác giả: Libby Assassi
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0230517935
• ISBN-13: 978-0230517936
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 332.042 International finance
• Thông tin xuất bản: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
• Mô tả vật lý: vii, 215 p. ; , 23 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Xã hội, kinh tế, luật
• ID: 154601
• Chủ đề: 1. Financial institutions--History; 2. Globalization--History; 3. Sex discrimination against women--History

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-210) and index.

Tóm tắt

"This book examines the gendered structures of global financial markets. It maps out crucial economic, cultural and socio-historical processes which excluded women from (formal) financial activities in Britain and then on a global scale. The author argues that, with the contemporary deepening of financial markets, there has been a resultant shift as women are targeted world-wide as an emerging market for credit and finance, which has crucial implications for increased levels of insecurity and risk"--Provided by publisher.