Melissa S Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa S Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa S |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6109-5080 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Charting the future of business and organizational ethnography
Charting the future of business and organizational ethnographyCollaboration between researchers and their "informants" in business and organizational ethnography has become an increasingly important dimension of both anthropological and organizational studies inquiry [1].However, although both disciplines have explored pushing theoretically and methodologically beyond the norms of solo research, there has been relatively little dialog between the…
Building Alternative Feminist Economic Futures
WHEELS (Women's Hands Establishing Entrepreneurial Leadership Skills) Collective was established in Brooklyn, NY, in 2013, in response to the severe impact of the recession on women of color. It de
Wall Street women
Purpose – This paper aims to, by drawing on two decades of field work on Wall Street, explore the recent evolution in the gendering of Wall Street, as well as the potential effects – including the reproduction of financiers’ power – of that evolution. The 2008 financial crisis was depicted in strikingly gendered terms – with many commentators articulating a divide between masculine, greedy, risk-taking behavior and feminine, conservative, risk-av…
Opinions
One of the more salutory effects of the financial crisis in 2007-8 has been the realization, even by some economists, that numbers do not explain everything and that social forms and relations also play a major part in financial trading. Here anthropologists (and some sociologists) have come to the fore. The JBA therefore asked a number of scholars to write an opinion piece about different aspects of the anthropology of finance that interested th…
Careers, Networks, and Mentors
Women’s Politics and State-Market Feminism
Beginnings
Life after Wall Street
Gendered Discourses of Finance
Index
Market Feminism, Feminizing Markets, and the Financial Crisis
Toward a Feminist Para-Ethnography
Toward a Feminist Para-Ethnography:On Gender Equality Policy Making in Business Melissa S. Fisher (bio) Corporations have wrestled since the 1960s with creating equal opportunities for their employees, in the context of shifting ideas in the larger society about discrimination (Kessler-Harris 2001; Kwolek-Folland 1998; Laird 2006). From setting up affirmative action plans in the seventies to managing diversity in the eighties and placing gender d…
Wall Street Women
Patricia Riley and I sat in her small office in one of the major Wall Street firms in midtown Manhattan.It was March 1994, the first day of my fieldwork on the pioneering generation of women on Wall Street.∞ Patricia was one of the most senior women in global finance, a veteran with more than twenty years in the area of research.When she first entered the world of finance in the seventies, researchers were considered to be support staff for inves…
Wall Street Women
The first generation of women on Wall Street has negotiated shifting gender roles from the fifties to the present, a period of transformation in global financial markets and business as well. Over much of this period, these women increasingly used city places-federal buildings, the stock exchange-to promote women's upward mobility on Wall Street. In this article, I focus on how two women's networks-The Financial Women's Association and the Women'…
Frontiers of Capital
Corporate Ethnography in the New Economy
Wall Street Women
Patricia Riley and I sat in her small office in one of the major Wall Street firms in midtown Manhattan.It was March 1994, the first day of my fieldwork on the pioneering generation of women on Wall Street.∞ Patricia was one of the most senior women in global finance, a veteran with more than twenty years in the area of research.When she first entered the world of finance in the seventies, researchers were considered to be support staff for inves…
Wall Street Women
The first generation of women on Wall Street has negotiated shifting gender roles from the fifties to the present, a period of transformation in global financial markets and business as well. Over much of this period, these women increasingly used city places-federal buildings, the stock exchange-to promote women's upward mobility on Wall Street. In this article, I focus on how two women's networks-The Financial Women's Association and the Women'…
Charting the future of business and organizational ethnography
Charting the future of business and organizational ethnographyCollaboration between researchers and their "informants" in business and organizational ethnography has become an increasingly important dimension of both anthropological and organizational studies inquiry [1].However, although both disciplines have explored pushing theoretically and methodologically beyond the norms of solo research, there has been relatively little dialog between the…
Toward a Feminist Para-Ethnography
Toward a Feminist Para-Ethnography:On Gender Equality Policy Making in Business Melissa S. Fisher (bio) Corporations have wrestled since the 1960s with creating equal opportunities for their employees, in the context of shifting ideas in the larger society about discrimination (Kessler-Harris 2001; Kwolek-Folland 1998; Laird 2006). From setting up affirmative action plans in the seventies to managing diversity in the eighties and placing gender d…
Frontiers of Capital
Opinions
One of the more salutory effects of the financial crisis in 2007-8 has been the realization, even by some economists, that numbers do not explain everything and that social forms and relations also play a major part in financial trading. Here anthropologists (and some sociologists) have come to the fore. The JBA therefore asked a number of scholars to write an opinion piece about different aspects of the anthropology of finance that interested th…
Corporate Ethnography in the New Economy
Frontiers of Capital
Wall Street Women
The first generation of women on Wall Street has negotiated shifting gender roles from the fifties to the present, a period of transformation in global financial markets and business as well. Over much of this period, these women increasingly used city places-federal buildings, the stock exchange-to promote women's upward mobility on Wall Street. In this article, I focus on how two women's networks-The Financial Women's Association and the Women'…
Careers, Networks, and Mentors
Women’s Politics and State-Market Feminism
Beginnings
Life after Wall Street
Gendered Discourses of Finance
Index
Market Feminism, Feminizing Markets, and the Financial Crisis
Toward a Feminist Para-Ethnography
Toward a Feminist Para-Ethnography:On Gender Equality Policy Making in Business Melissa S. Fisher (bio) Corporations have wrestled since the 1960s with creating equal opportunities for their employees, in the context of shifting ideas in the larger society about discrimination (Kessler-Harris 2001; Kwolek-Folland 1998; Laird 2006). From setting up affirmative action plans in the seventies to managing diversity in the eighties and placing gender d…
Wall Street Women
Patricia Riley and I sat in her small office in one of the major Wall Street firms in midtown Manhattan.It was March 1994, the first day of my fieldwork on the pioneering generation of women on Wall Street.∞ Patricia was one of the most senior women in global finance, a veteran with more than twenty years in the area of research.When she first entered the world of finance in the seventies, researchers were considered to be support staff for inves…
Opinions
One of the more salutory effects of the financial crisis in 2007-8 has been the realization, even by some economists, that numbers do not explain everything and that social forms and relations also play a major part in financial trading. Here anthropologists (and some sociologists) have come to the fore. The JBA therefore asked a number of scholars to write an opinion piece about different aspects of the anthropology of finance that interested th…
Wall Street women
Purpose – This paper aims to, by drawing on two decades of field work on Wall Street, explore the recent evolution in the gendering of Wall Street, as well as the potential effects – including the reproduction of financiers’ power – of that evolution. The 2008 financial crisis was depicted in strikingly gendered terms – with many commentators articulating a divide between masculine, greedy, risk-taking behavior and feminine, conservative, risk-av…
Building Alternative Feminist Economic Futures
WHEELS (Women's Hands Establishing Entrepreneurial Leadership Skills) Collective was established in Brooklyn, NY, in 2013, in response to the severe impact of the recession on women of color. It de
Charting the future of business and organizational ethnography
Charting the future of business and organizational ethnographyCollaboration between researchers and their "informants" in business and organizational ethnography has become an increasingly important dimension of both anthropological and organizational studies inquiry [1].However, although both disciplines have explored pushing theoretically and methodologically beyond the norms of solo research, there has been relatively little dialog between the…
Sociology (10 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (8 works) · Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)