Capital Culture Revisited: Sex, Testosterone and the City

• LINDA McDOWELL ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Oxford

     University of Oxford

     Oxford District, Reino Unido

     
• Localización: International journal of urban and regional research, ISSN 0309-1317, Vol. 34, Nº. 3, 2010, págs. 652-658
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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 currentfinancial 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 isgendered. 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 exploremore explicitly the implications of testosterone-fuelled risk taking by both the tradersand the chief executive officers of investment banks in the current world of casinocapitalism.