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Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City
LINDA MCDOWELL, 1997
Oxford: Blackwell
240 pp.; 45.00 hardback; 15.99 paperback
ISBN 0 631 20530 6 hardback; 0 631 20531 4
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This ambitious and thought-provoking book examines the gendered work practices and cultures of the City of London's financial sector. Its aim is to unpack the changing relationship between gender, class, power and money in a sector which was radically restructured during the 1980s but continued to hold its own as one of the leading international centres for finance. McDowell examines whether the position of women is improving as the banking industry has changed, and it is truly impressive that she shows how addressing this apparently straightforward question involves broadening out analysis from labour market issues alone to include questions of culture, space and the body. This broad, multidisciplinary and imaginative perspective offers all kinds of new possibilities for further analysis and will make this book an attractive model for researchers interested in very different worlds from those of international finance.
McDowell's book is divided into two...