Men of Money

Dr. Lynn Horton is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Chapman University. Her areas of research interest include development, gender Latin America, social movements, and qualitative research methods. Her books include Peasants in Arms, War and Peace in the Mountains of Nicaragua, Grassroots Struggles for Sustainability in Central America, and Women and Microfinance in the Global South.

• 1. The Neoliberal Project2. New Global Masculinities3. The Wider Context of Neoliberal Gender Discourse4. Studying Elite Masculinities5. Heroes of High Finance6. The Business of War and Protector Masculinity7. The Nanny State and Feminine Other8. Challenges to Elite Masculinities9. Conclusion

In this latest addition to the ever-growing canon on men, masculinity, manhood, and men’s studies, Horton examines contemporary “elite masculinity,” which is largely shaped by two major sectors of the international economy: finance and technology. Employing the methodological approaches of content analysis and case study, she explores both self- and media representations of several highly visible billionaire men to more fully understand and explain how class and masculinity intersect with overall neoliberal ideology—both shaping and being shaped by it. The author further explores the roles that elite think tanks and advocacy groups play in this dynamic process. The result is a serious, sobering theoretical analysis of 21st-century “masculine” political economy…. [A]cademic researchers with specialties in these particular areas will find this a most provocative read. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.