Market masculinities and electronic trading

Matthias Klaes, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley
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Geoff Lightfoot: Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy, University of Leicester, England
Simon Lilley: Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy, University of Leicester, England

No 014/2007, SCEME Working Papers: Advances in Economic Methodology from SCEME

Abstract: The transition from exchange mediated by the technology of open outcry to that mediated more entirely by screen might be expected to alter the pronounced gendering of trading. Focusing on narrative repertoires of alternative trading regimes we examine how traders make sense of their activities at the same time as practically orienting them and argue that compared to the widely acknowledged masculinity of open outcry trading, screen based trading provides no less of an arena for expression of compulsory masculinity. Methodologically, we call for greater attention to ethnographically grounded analyses of the gendered repertoires of exchange.

Keywords: behavioral-finance; feminist-economics; gender; narrative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B52 B54 G10 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007-01
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