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Queer economics : a reader
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Queer economics : a reader

Author: Joyce P Jacobsen; Adam Zeller
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Joyce P Jacobsen; Adam Zeller
ISBN: 9780415771702 0415771706 9780415771696 0415771692 9780203939451 020393945X
OCLC Number: 104869463
Description: xiii, 466 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Joyce Jacobsen and Adam Zeller.
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