Description: In this book, Lynn Horton explores how the most dynamic sectors of the global economy-finance and technology-are shaping new forms of elite masculinity. She offers fresh insights into the often overlooked links between economic inequalities and the identity politics of gender and race.
Brief description: Lynn Horton is an Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Chapman University. Her research interests focus on development, gender, social movements, and qualitative methods. Her most recent book, Women and Microfinance in the Global South (Cambridge University Press 2017), employs qualitative meta-synthesis to explore the (dis)empowerment impacts of microcredit projects on low-income women in the Global South.
Review Quotes: "In this latest addition to the ever-growing canon on men, masculinity, manhood, and men's studies, Horton examines contemporary "elite masculinity," which is largely shaped by two major sectors of the international economy: finance and technology. Employing the methodological approaches of content analysis and case study, she explores both self- and media representations of several highly visible billionaire men to more fully understand and explain how class and masculinity intersect with overall neoliberal ideology--both shaping and being shaped by it. The author further explores the roles that elite think tanks and advocacy groups play in this dynamic process. The result is a serious, sobering theoretical analysis of 21st-century "masculine" political economy.... [A]cademic researchers with specialties in these particular areas will find this a most provocative read. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty." --Choice Reviews