Queer economics : a reader / edited by Joyce Jacobsen and Adam Zeller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobsen, Joyce P.

Zeller, Adam.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people--United States--Economic conditions.

Gay people.

Gay consumers--United States.

Gay consumers.

Lesbian consumers--United States.

Lesbian consumers.

Homosexuality--Economic aspects.

Homosexuality.

Economic conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 466 pages.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Queer Economics is the examination of and response to the effects of heteronormativity both on economic outcomes and on economics as a discipline. The editors of this reader fill an empty niche both by defining the field of queer economics and by bringing together into one volume many of the salient early articles in the field as well as important recent contributions.

A brief introductory essay sets out the reasons for and aims of the project. No book currently exists that consolidates what has been published up to this point in the field; nor does any other book try to define the field of queer economics. The reader consists of nine sections: why queer economics?, barriers to the study of queer economics, queer demography, queer political economy, queer economic history, queer labor economics, queer consumer economics, queer urban economics, and queer political finance. Each section contains a short introduction that defines the topic at hand and provides an introduction to each of the key readings.

The field is related both to a broader literature in economics that considers the economic outcomes of various minority and oppressed groups, as well as to the growing literature in queer studies, most of which does not address economics at all, or only tangentially. This book is necessary reading for students in research areas including political economy, urban studies, economics, economic history, and demographic economics.

Contents:

Introduction

Why queer economics?

The economics of sexual orientation: establishing a research agenda / M.V. Lee Badgett and Rhonda M. Williams

Gender, sexuality, and sexual orientation: all in the feminist family? / M.V. Lee Badgett

Opening questions / Colleen Lamos

Barriers to the study of queer economics

Why aren't more economists doing research on sexual orientation? / Marieka M. Klawitter

Uncovering a quantitative history of gays and lesbians in the United States / Kyle D. Kauffman

Queer demography

Demographics of the gay and lesbian population in the United States: evidence from available systematic data sources / Dan Black, Gary Gates, Seth Sanders, and Lowell Taylor

Using the census to profile same-sex cohabitation: a research note / Voon Chin Phua and Gayle Kaufman

Lesbians and gay men flirting with/disengaging from vital statistics: same sex relationships and the NZ census 1971/2001 / Prue Hyman

Queer political economy

Queer political economy: the social articulation of desire / Richard R. Cornwall

Lesbian economics / Jeffner Allan

Queer economic history

Capitalism and gay identity / John D'Emilio

The sexual division of labor, sexuality and lesbian/gay liberation: towards a Marxist-feminist analysis of sexuality in U.S. capitalism / Julie Matthaei

Queer labor economics

The wage effects of sexual orientation discrimination / M.V. Lee Badgett

Effects of sexual preferences on earnings in the Netherlands / Erik Plug and Peter Berkhout

Sexual orientation discrimination in hiring / Doris Weichselbaumer

Queer consumer economics

The gay marketing movement / Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed

We're here, we're queer, and we're going shopping! A critical perspective on the accommodation of gays and lesbians in the U.S. marketplace / Lisa Peñaloza

Excuse me sir? May I help you and your boyfriend?: salespersons' differential treatment of homosexual and straight customers / Andrew S. Walters and Maria-Cristina Curran

Queer urban economics

Gentrification and gay neighborhood formation in New Orleans: a case study / Lawrence Knopp

Finding oneself, losing oneself: the lesbian and gay "scene" as a paradoxical space / Gill Valentine and Tracey Skelton

Queer public finance

Wedding bell blues: the income tax consequences of legalizing same-sex marriage

What if? The legal consequences of marriage and the legal needs of lesbian and gay male couples / David L. Chambers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780203939451

020393945X

Publisher Number:

99987214931

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