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Capital culture [[electronic resource] ] : gender at work in the city / / Linda McDowell



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Autore: McDowell Linda <1949-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Capital culture [[electronic resource] ] : gender at work in the city / / Linda McDowell Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 1997
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
Disciplina: 305.43332
306.3/615/09421
361.6/1/0941
Soggetto topico: Sexual division of labor - England - London
Sex role in the work environment - England - London
Financial services industry - England - London
Women employees - England - London
Male employees - England - London
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [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
Titolo autorizzato: Capital culture  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-84068-8
9786611840686
0-470-71289-9
0-470-71264-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910144120703321
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Serie: Studies in urban and social change.