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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829911403321

Autore

McDowell Linda <1949->

Titolo

Capital culture : gender at work in the city / / Linda McDowell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Blackwell Publishers, , [1997]

©1997

ISBN

1-281-84068-8

9786611840686

0-470-71289-9

0-470-71264-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Studies in urban and social change

Disciplina

306.361509421

Soggetti

Sex role in the work environment - England - London

Sexual division of labor - England - London

Male employees - England - London

Women employees - England - London

Financial services industry - England - London

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Money and Work; Part I: Gender at Work; 1 Thinking through Work: Gender, Power and Space; 2 City Work/Places: The Old and New City; 3 Gendered Work Patterns; 4 Gendered Career Paths; 5 The Culture of Banking: Reproducing Class and Gender Divisions; Part II: Bodies at Work; 6 Engendered Cultures: The Impossibility of Being a Man; 7 Body Work 1: Men Behaving Badly; 8 Body Work 2: The Masqueraders; 9 Conclusions: Rethinking Work/Places

Appendix: The Field WorkBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The changing nature of waged work in contemporary advanced industrial nations is one of the most significant aspects of political and economic debate. It is also the subject of intense debate among observers of gender. Capital Culture explores these changes focusing



particularly on the gender relations between the men and women who work in the financial services sector. The multiple ways in which masculinities and femininities are constructed is revealed through the analysis of interviews with dealers, traders, analysts and corporate financiers.  Drawing on a range of disciplinary