The Feminisation of Finance

Allon, Fiona

doi:10.1080/08164649.2014.901279

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“…At once the means to new individualized ways of living and the route to financial independence, condos highlight a deep-seated contradiction in housing discourses. For instance, Fiona Allon (2014) argues that, in the realm of housing, the privatization of social provision has meant the bearing of ever larger and more risky debt loads, which come to operate as a powerful form of discipline (p. 23). According to Allon, there has been an even more intensive push since the economic crash to increase women's use of financial prod-ucts, mortgages and consumer credit (p. 13), which she terms the 'feminization of finance'.…”

Section: Buy Herselfmentioning

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Property TV: Financialized femininity and new forms of domestic labour

Druick

2017

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article argues that melodrama plays an important role in shaping the ambivalent narratives of property TV. Using the HGTV Canada show Buy Herself as a case study, the article considers the rise of what amounts to a new women's genre as an attempt to frame and contain gendered experiences of the financialization of the domestic sphere. Positioning the show within neoliberalism's faux feminism and superficial discourse of diversity, the article posits that the focus on the melodramatic struggles of real estate buyers in the reality genre of property TV brings to the fore anxieties and contradictions incited by the neoliberal imperatives to reframe the domestic sphere as real estate investment and normalize debt.

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Section: Buy Herselfmentioning

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Property TV: Financialized femininity and new forms of domestic labour

Druick

2017

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…First, the financialisation of explicitly gendered activities involves the financialisation of allegedly female characteristics and of women's bodies and labour, e.g. in the ways in which women are explicitly targeted in micro-credit schemes (Federici, 2014) or other financial and consumer products (Allon, 2014). In other words, the ways in which an under-utilisation of women's productive capacities becomes the ideological basis for what Roberts (2015) has called 'Transnational Business Feminism'.…”

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“…Second, the financialisation of the household pertains to the increase of personal debt, household utility payments and risk management in the form of insurance and other financial products, such that a portion of (future) household income and the activities undertaken in the home are tethered to financial markets (cf. Bryan, Martin and Rafferty, 2009;Allon, 2014;Federici, 2014). Third, the financialisation of welfare and social and community activities focuses on forms of social provisioning or social reproduction outside of the household: volunteering.…”

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Valorised but not valued? Affective remuneration, social reproduction and feminist politics beyond the crisis

Dowling

2016

Br Polit

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This paper proposes an analytical distinction between modes of valorising and modes of valuing social reproduction to suggest that a conflict between these two opposing modes lies at the heart of an ongoing crisis of social reproduction in the face of purported economic recovery, where unpaid reproductive labour constitutes a source of surplus value. A systemic imperative to expand markets in the pursuit of profitability goes hand in hand with a devaluation of social reproduction, either by making this work invisible or by externalising its cost. The paper analyses the specificities of this process in the context of contemporary Britain and investigates the role of the state, focusing on volunteering and new forms of 'affective remuneration' linked to financialisation and the connection between social reproduction and wealth extraction. In conclusion, the paper outlines the contours of possible counter-practices informed by a feminist politics. KeywordsSocial reproduction, affective remuneration, financialisation, affective labour, volunteering, valorisation, feminism. 2The only good thing about living in austerity Britain is that through pushing us into a corner, the government and the money that controls it is unwittingly training up a generation of fighters. Some of us will kick and scream. Others will be by the ringside healing the wounded. And the rest? We'll be coming up with new ways of undermining the violence raining down on us from above. We'll be digging the tunnels and laying the path for a better and ultra-civil society where there won't be a deserving or undeserving divide … just people, a planet and the mutual care of both.Leah Borromeo 1Feminist politics regarding social reproduction makes visible the hidden, unacknowledged and unpaid reproductive work predominantly carried out by women in the home, in communities and in gendered ways in the workplace. Key to this struggle has been the denaturalisation of women as assistants, carers and housewives seen as performing unpaid reproductive labour out of affection or responsibility for those they care for, or because it has been considered their social role. Feminist struggle has also sought to achieve social and cultural recognition of reproductive work as work, demanding independent and direct remuneration as well as an explicit accounting for its value in national economies. Overall, feminist struggles have sought to challenge the roles assigned to women and thus de-gender 2 the social division of labour, not simply for the purposes of achieving equality between the sexes, but to bring about an altogether different kind of society, thereby highlighting the value of social reproduction for intersectional struggles against exploitation, oppression and the destruction of the environment.The premise of this paper is that social reproduction is still not valued in such ways, Organising against the crisis of social reproductionSocial reproduction, the work of producing labour power and life, can be understood in terms of spheres -the places wher...

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“…Building on critical studies of microfinance (e.g. Rankin 2001, Roy 2012 and the 'feminisation of finance' (Allon 2014), this paper foregrounds the co-constitutive role space plays in articulations of gender and debt. While debt is often theorized as a temporal relation (see Peebles 2010, AUTHOR 2017, existing studies of gender and debt tend to occlude this focus in 2 order to discuss power, governance and inequality.…”

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“…While financial credit/debt has long been understood and represented through gendered and sexualised metaphors (de Goede 2005), changes in financial markets since the 1970s have increasingly implicated practices and spaces thought about as feminine and women as financial subjects. As Allon (2014) argues, what has been called the democratization of finance has meant first, the incorporation of women (and other socially marginalised groups) into financial networks and practices. In countries like the US, UK and Australia, women were long excluded from accessing credit through mechanisms such as the common law principle of coverture (i.e.…”

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The gender of debt and space: Notes from Ramallah-Al Bireh, Palestine

Harker¹,

Sayyad²,

Shebeitah³

2019

Geoforum

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This paper argues that space is crucial to understanding intersections of gender and debt, and the gender of debt as a concept. Drawing on existing accounts of gender and debt, and ethnographic research in the Palestinian conurbation of Ramallah Al Bireh, we argue that articulations of gender, debt and space can be examined through practices of becoming indebted, managing debt and 'wearing' debt. In Ramallah, home spaces play a particularly important role as an expensive commodity that is forcing an increasing number of (usually male) residents to become indebted, a context through which debts are managed (usually by women), and an active co-constituent of debt through interiority, and the privacy this affords (unequally distributing the emotional, embodied labour of living with debt). In conclusion, we turn to the gender of debt to think through the intersections of postcolonial and gendered difference, and argue for decentring the Eurocentric bias of existing conceptualisations of debt and finance. This contributes to work examining the active role geographies play in constituting debts, both in practice and in theory.

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The Feminisation of Finance

Cited by 80 publications

References 40 publications

Property TV: Financialized femininity and new forms of domestic labour

Property TV: Financialized femininity and new forms of domestic labour

Valorised but not valued? Affective remuneration, social reproduction and feminist politics beyond the crisis

The gender of debt and space: Notes from Ramallah-Al Bireh, Palestine

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