Lynn Horton

Men of Money (eBook, ePUB)

Elite Masculinities and the Neoliberal Project

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, sociologist Lynn Hortonexplores how the most dynamic sectors of the global economy-finance and technology-are shaping new forms of elite masculinity. She offers fresh insights into the often overlooked links between economic inequalities and the identity politics of gender and race. Through analysis of the lives and discourse of utra-visible male billionaires, Horton examines how extreme accumulations of wealth are both imbued with gendered celebrity and moral authority and harshly contested. She identifies the ways neoliberalism as an ideological project, advanced by elite-funded networks of think tanks and advocacy groups, draws on such masculinities to amplify and naturalize market-centered assumptions, values, and practices. Gender systems-relational and ranked constructs of masculinity/femininity-permeate neoliberal discourse of markets, the state, and the household. Horton also details the tensions and ties between technocratic elite masculinities which eschew open sexism and discrimination and rightwing populist mobilization of gendered and racialized anti-elite discourse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786613738
• Artikelnr.: 63956714

Autorenporträt

Lynn Horton is an Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Chapman University. Her research interests focus on development, gender, social movements, and qualitative methods. Her most recent book, Women and Microfinance in the Global South (Cambridge University Press 2017), employs qualitative meta-synthesis to explore the (dis)empowerment impacts of microcredit projects on low-income women in the Global South.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Neoliberal Project
2. New Global Masculinities
3. The Wider Context of Neoliberal Gender Discourse
4. Studying Elite Masculinities
5. Heroes of High Finance
6. The Business of War and Protector Masculinity
7. The Nanny State and Feminine Other
8. Challenges to Elite Masculinities
9. Conclusion