Scandalous Economics

Aida A. Hozic is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Florida. Jacqui True is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Monash University.

• AcknowledgmentsAbout the ContributorsI. Scandalous Gendering Chapter 1: Making Feminist Sense of the Global Financial Crisis Aida Hozic and Jacqui True Chapter 2: Lehman Brothers and Sisters: Revisiting Gender and After the Financial Crisis Elisabeth Prugl Chapter 3: The Global Financial Crisis' Silver Bullet: Women Leaders and Leaning-In Jacqui True Chapter 4: Finance, Financialization and the Production of Gender Adrienne Roberts II. Scandalous Obfuscations Chapter 5: Broken Britain: Post-Crisis Austerity and the Trouble with the Troubled Families Program Daniela Tepe-Belfrage and Johnna Montgomerie Chapter 6: Constitutionalizing Austerity, Disciplining the Household - Masculine Norms of Competitiveness and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in the Eurozone Ian Bruff and Stefanie Wohl Chapter 7: Whose Crisis? Whose Recovery? Lessons Learnt (and Not) from the Asian Crisis Juanita Elias Chapter 8: "To double oppression, double rebellion": Women, Capital and Crisis in 'Post-neoliberal' Latin America Guillermina Seri III. Scandalous Sex Chapter 9: Exploits and Exploitations: A Micro and Macro Analysis of the 'DSK Affair' Celeste Montoya Chapter 10: We, Neoliberals Aida HozicChapter 11: Gender, Finance and Embodiments of Crisis Penny Griffin IV. Scandalizing Reimaginings Chapter 12: Global Raciality of Capitalism and 'Primitive' Accumulation: (Un) Making the Death Limit Anna Agathangelou Chapter 13: Towards a Queer Political Economy of Crisis Nicola Smith Chapter 14: Self-Reproducing Movements and the Enduring Challenge of Materialist Feminism Wanda Vrasti Afterword: Gendering the Crisis Marieke De Goede References Index

This innovative collection wonderfully illustrates the power of radical feminist theorizing in disclosing the gendered roots, genesis, dynamics, narration, governance and impact of financial crisis and insecurity. Written by established and rising feminist scholars, it roundly rejects the idea that gender is an optional add-on and demonstrates its foundational role in the production and reproduction of exploitation, structured inequalities of power, and the dynamics of neoliberalism. Drawing on diverse methods, highlighting the intersectionality of inequalities, and focusing on different aspects of the financial crisis and related insecurities, they reveal many obscure features of financialization for the scandal that they are and also show how gendered representations of crisis subtly shape the brutal and unequal management of crisis. This is a must for the classroom, the library, and the activists bookshelf.