Eva Boesenberg Libri

American economies are hotly and controversially debated both within the United States and abroad. While most discussions focus exclusively on financial resources, this volume takes a more comprehensive approach, analysing interrelations between financial and cultural capital in different historical contexts and from a variety of perspectives. It addresses the 2008 financial crisis as well as representations of economics in literary texts and films, the usage of metaphors in economic theory, opportunities for interdisciplinary dialogues between economics and cultural studies, and the complex intersections of economics and aesthetics. Topics discussed range from piratical economies in seventeenth century literature to ecology and economics in recent movies, gentrification, and economics and health. With its readings of financial, narrative, libidinal and visual economies, the collection offers a broad spectrum of critical engagements with American economies both past and present.

Perhaps because money is frequently considered gender-neutral, studies of the nexus between financial resources, masculinities, and femininities in fiction have been rare. Yet, economics are a key aspect of gender constructions; conversely, the language of money is thoroughly gendered. This study traces the representation of these interrelations in U. S.-American literature between 1850 and 2000. After historicizing the topic, it analyzes 35 novels with a focus on sexuo-economic relations that are more flexible and less hierarchical than hegemonic constructions. It simultaneously addresses the relationship between financial and cultural capital in terms of subject matter as well as style. Attempting to reflect the ethnic and cultural diversity of U. S.-American literature, the text chronicles the gradual revision of the ideology of separate spheres in which making money was an exclusively male task, while also documenting its tenacity at least in contemporary masculinity constructions.

Der Geschlechterdialog: produktiver Gedankenaustausch oder Streitgespräch? Führt er zu besserem Verstehen oder Missverständnissen, größerer Nähe oder Frustration? Nach wie vor ist der Dialog zwischen den Geschlechtern eine brisante Form der Kommunikation. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes, die überwiegend aus Vorträgen am 2. Tag der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle hervorgegangen sind, beleuchten das Thema aus sprach- und literaturwissenschaftlicher, pädagogischer, medien- und kommunikationswissenschaftlicher sowie theologischer Sicht. Sie analysieren in erster Linie die Grenzen des Geschlechterdialogs, um so die Chancen seines zukünftigen Gelingens zu verbessern.