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
Summary
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 approaches, t
