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Zusatztext Over the past decade, the global financial crisis has been forgotten. Crucial questions regarding subjects, bodies, and practices have been displaced by bloodless macroeconomic and theoretical abstractions, while critical voices and ethical concerns have been co-opted and reduced to matters of technique. This book shows over a series of path-breaking chapters how this great repression happened, demonstrating the need for gendered and feminist analyses which counter analytic amnesia and highlight the everyday realities of embodied practices and subjects. Informationen zum Autor Anna M. Agathangelou (PhD Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University) is an Associate Professor at York University, Toronto and former fellow, Program on Science, Technology and Society, J.F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. She is co-editor of Arab Revolutions and World Transformations (with Nevzat Soguk) (Routledge 2013), the co-author of Transforming World Politics: From Empire to Multiple Worlds (with L.H.M. Ling) (Routledge 2009), the author of Global Political Economy of Sex: Desire, Violence and Insecurity in Mediterranean Nation-States (Palgrave 2004). She just completed a co-edited volume with Kyle D. Killian titled Time, Temporality and Violence in International Relations: (De) Fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives (Routledge, 2016). Ian Bruff is Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely on capitalist diversity, neoliberalism, and social theory. He rece Klappentext While feminist economists and movements such as Occupy Wall Street have pointed to the distributional inequalities that are an effect of financial deregulation, scholars haven't really grappled with the representational inequalities inherent in the way we view the politics of the market. Scandalous Economics breaks new ground by doing precisely this. Zusammenfassung While feminist economists and movements such as Occupy Wall Street have pointed to the distributional inequalities that are an effect of financial deregulation, scholars haven't really grappled with the representational inequalities inherent in the way we view the politics of the market. Scandalous Economics breaks new ground by doing precisely this. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments About the Contributors I. Scandalous Gendering Chapter 1: Making Feminist Sense of the Global Financial Crisis Aida Hozi¿ 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 Hozi¿ Chapter 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 Aganthangelou Chapter 13: Towards a Queer Political Economy of Crisis Nicola Smith Chapter 14: Self-Rep...