| In America, money is gendered, as men and women are often considered to have different relationships to work and wealth. Certain forms of American femininity are culturally defined as being inherently apart from most forms of work while certain versions of masculinity are deeply associated with money-making or physical labor. Gender helps to define labor and value, while work and money also help to define gender and sexuality, in ways that involve race. This course explores the relationship of work, money, and capitalism to gender. It examines these intersections in the United States and across cultures and history. Because we can’t understand the relation of money to gender without understanding capitalism, the course includes attention to theories and histories about market economies and globalization, but also examines economies that are not capitalist market economies as well. While we consider conventional economic thought, the course is emphasizes approaches that are outside of, and often critical of, the general mainstream of the current discipline of Economics. |
