Gender, Space and City Bankers

ISBN-13: 9780367785055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 178 str.

Helen Longlands

Opis

This book offers a unique insight into everyday work and family lives of city bankers exploring how economic authority combines with individual and institutional claims to cultural, moral and intellectual leadership to sustain the local and global dominance of the banking elite.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction: global finance and the inequality of hegemony

1 Life in the City: space, place and inequality

2 Inside the boys’ club of global finance

3 Gender, space and family

4 Exclusive communities

5 A community in crisis

6 Conclusion: the City in reflection

References

Index

O autorze

Dr Helen Longlands is a lecturer in Education and International Development at UCL Institute of Education, University College London. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and centre on issues relating to gender, inequalities and social justice, particularly men, masculinities and transnational relationships and structures of power.