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Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) Hardcover - 2001 - 1st Edition
by Badgett, M.V. Lee
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- Title Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
- Author Badgett, M.V. Lee
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date May 1, 2001
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0226034003.G
- ISBN 9780226034003 / 0226034003
- Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 9.33 x 6.4 x 0.95 in (23.70 x 16.26 x 2.41 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress subjects Gays - Economic conditions, Homosexuality - Economic aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00011126
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.906
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Are the economic decisions made by gay people different in some way from those made by heterosexual people?
From the rear cover
How does the standard of living of gay men and lesbians compare with that of heterosexuals? Do homosexuals make financial and family decisions differently? Why are the professional lives of gay men and lesbians dissimilar from those of heterosexuals? Or do they even differ? Have gay people benefited from the recent economic boom? Or have public policies denied them their fair share? Money, Myths, and Change provides new answers to these complex questions. This is the first comprehensive work to explore the economic lives of gays and lesbians in the United States. M. V. Lee Badgett weaves through and debunks common stereotypes about gay privilege, income, and consumer behavior. Studying the ends and means of gay life from an economic perspective, she disproves the assumption that gay men and lesbians are more affluent than heterosexuals, that they inspire discrimination when they come out of the closet, that they consume more conspicuously, that they enjoy a more self-indulgent, even hedonistic lifestyle. Badgett gets to the heart of these misconceptions through an analysis of the crucial issues that affect the livelihood of gay men and lesbians: discrimination in the workplace, denial of health care benefits to domestic partners and children, lack of access to legal institutions such as marriage, the corporate wooing of gay consumer dollars, and the use of gay economic clout to inspire social and political change. Both timely and readable, Money, Myths, and Change stands as a much-needed corrective to the assumptions that inhibit gay economic equality. It is a definitive work that sheds new light on just what it means to be gay or lesbian in the United States.
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Citations
- Choice, 03/01/2002, Page 1287
- Lambda Book Report, 10/01/2001, Page 31
- Library Journal, 08/01/2001, Page 141
- Women's Review of Books, 02/01/2002, Page 28