Capital Culture Revisited
Sex, Testosterone and the City
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4382576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Mcdowell (0000-0001-7888-0886, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 652-658 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00972.x |
| OpenAlex | W2142072395 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 6 |
In this essay I want to revisit and add to the arguments in my book Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City, published a decade before the first signs of the current financial crisis. There I suggested that the City of London, the financial heart of the UK, is an arena riven by sexualized and gendered scripts: in other words capitalism is gendered. A decade or so later, these arguments seem just as relevant as the financial 'masters of the universe' are brought low, in part by their own behaviour. Here, I explore more explicitly the implications of testosterone-fuelled risk taking by both the traders and the chief executive officers of investment banks in the current world of casino capitalism.Résumé Ce travail reprend et complète le propos de Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City, le livre que j'ai publié une décennie avant l'apparition des premiers signes de la crise financière actuelle. Cet ouvrage préconisait que la City de Londres, cœur financier du Royaume-Uni, était une arène scindée selon des scénarios différenciés par sexe et genre, autrement dit le capitalisme était sexué. Près de dix ans plus tard, ces propos semblent tout aussi pertinents d'autant que les 'maîtres de l'univers' de la finance sont amoindris, en partie à cause de leur propre comportement. Sont examinées ici de plus près les implications des prises de risques nourries à la testostérone auxquelles se livrent à la fois les traders et les directeurs généraux des banques d'investissement dans un monde où règne un capitalisme de casino
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| Unique citing works | 47 |
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| Citations per year | 2,76 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 43 |