Wall Street Women By Melissa S. Fisher Paperback 0822353458 9780822353454 Nonfiction Wall Street Women Wall Street Women tells the story of the first generation of women to establish themselves as professionals on Wall Street. Since these women, who began their careers in the 1960s, faced blatant discrimination and barriers to advancement, they created formal and informal associations to bolster one anothers careers. In this important historical ethnography, Melissa S. Fisher draws on fieldwork, archival research, and extensive interviews with a very successful cohort of first generation Wall Street women. She describes their professional and political associations, most notably the Financial Women’s Association of New York City, which was founded in the 1950s, and the Women’s Campaign Fund, a bipartisan group formed to promote the election of pro choice women.Fisher charts the evolution of the womens careers, the growth of their political and economic clout, changes in their perspectives and the cultural climate on Wall Street, and their experiences of the 2008 financial collapse. While most of the pioneering subjects of Wall Street Women did not participate in the womens movement as it was happening in the 1960s and 1970s, Fisher argues that they did produce a market feminism which aligned liberal feminist ideals about meritocracy and gender equity with the logic of the market. Melissa S. Fisher is Visiting Scholar at New York Universitys Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. She is a coeditor of Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy, also published by Duke University Press. Melissa Fishers Wall Street Women introduces us to a feminist world that we can hardly imagine. As they dream of changing the hostile domain of finance, women find themselves drawing on traditional notions of gender equality and coaching each other in old fashioned survival skills. Written in enticing prose, Wall Street Women offers us an illuminating peek into a wholly unexpected fusion of feminism with the market.—Alice Kessler Harris, author of A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman Detecting gendering in high finance is a long standing challenge—it is a domain inhospitable to the main categories of feminist analysis. Melissa S. Fisher goes at it with gusto and gives us a great book.—Saskia Sassen, author of Territory, Authority, Rights
Girls of wall street Good book if in the industry or wanting to see a historical depiction of what has evolved for a select group in an industry that has had so many swings Melissa S Fisher Disclaimer This review is based on an advanced reading copy won through the GoodReads giveaway program.
Stories about wall street Fisher s book is an ethnographic study of the first generation of women who worked on Wall Street in the 1970s and 80s Her initial research was done in the 1990s but she revisited her subjects following the 2007 recession when the financial world became a very gendered place in the media that was brought down by the testosterone controlled.
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Found information on subject not before exposed to be presented in clear concise manner Melissa S Fisher Received the book as a first reads give away and enjoyed seeing of the details as to what has become common day Instead of the current assumption that an Ivy League education gets you in the door risk happy men and should be re regulated with feminine long sighted women. Wall street women ebook pdf free Most of the book focuses on the women s lives in the 70s 90s when they were working and advancing in their finance careers Fisher writes about how these women advanced feminist ideas in workplace by the very merit of them BEING in the workplace and demanding equal consideration following the financial world s focus on advancement through merit without framing themselves as feminists. Wall Street womenrising The group Fisher studied was by no means cohesive in cultural background education career path or political affiliation However at the end of the book they all seemed to agree on certain ideas That their generation had broken into the financial world but that the following generations of women often took their places for granted. Stories about wall street But the message that Fisher seemed to end with that the advances this pioneering generation of Wall Street Women thought they had made for women in the workplace and the political sphere seemed to be crumbling without the younger generations taking sufficient notice. Book wall street womens book There is a lot of information in this book and it at times seemed repetitious If you are not interested in the nitty gritty details of the methodology or the history of finance itself the introduction may be an unnecessary read The best parts to my leisurely reading was when Fisher let the women s words speak for themselves with a peppering of insights from herself Melissa S Fisher Fisher combines the detached curiosity of an anthropologist studying the folkways of a tribal village with a sure grasp of history politics and economics as well as an affectionate regard for her subjects a small group of highly successful women who entered Wall Street in the 60s Publishers Weekly Extensively researched and thoroughly documented this portrait of a pioneering generation of women provides context for understanding the emergent discourse of feminizing markets Strongly recommended for readers interested in business anthropology or gender studies particularly for gendered discourses of finance and the female financial elite Rebekah Wallin Library Journal Fisher shows how women who made it on Wall Street deftly deployed their supposedly innate risk averse qualities to stay afloat long term W e get the pleasure of hearing conversations that normally take place behind closed doors When the women dish about the guys in the office they really dish Elizabeth Dwoskin Bloomberg Businessweek Melissa S Fisher Good Reads win This isn t something I usually read I read through the whole thing and it just wasn t for me Although it was very informative and had alot of different information in it It is about the women of wall street It goes from the 70s to 07 It was still an interesting read Thanks good reads and author Melissa S Fisher
Wall Street Women tells the story of the first generation of women to establish themselves as professionals on Wall Street Since these women who began their careers in the 1960s faced blatant discrimination and barriers to advancement they created formal and informal associations to bolster one another s careers In this important historical ethnography Melissa S Fisher draws on fieldwork archival research and extensive interviews with a very successful cohort of first generation Wall Street women She describes their professional and political associations most notably the Financial Women s Association of New York City which was founded in the 1950s and the Women s Campaign Fund a bipartisan group formed to promote the election of pro choice women.
Book wall street women's Fisher charts the evolution of the women s careers the growth of their political and economic clout changes in their perspectives and the cultural climate on Wall Street and their experiences of the 2008 financial collapse While most of the pioneering subjects of Wall Street Women did not participate in the women s movement as it was happening in the 1960s and 1970s Fisher argues that they did produce a market feminism which aligned liberal feminist ideals about meritocracy and gender equity with the logic of the market Melissa S Fisher is Visiting Scholar at New York University s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis She is a coeditor of Frontiers of Capital Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy also published by Duke University Press Melissa Fisher s Wall Street Women introduces us to a feminist world that we can hardly imagine As they dream of changing the hostile domain of finance women find themselves drawing on traditional notions of gender equality and coaching each other in old fashioned survival skills Written in enticing prose Wall Street Women offers us an illuminating peek into a wholly unexpected fusion of feminism with the market Alice Kessler Harris author of A Difficult Woman The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman Detecting gendering in high finance is a long standing challenge it is a domain inhospitable to the main categories of feminist analysis Melissa S Fisher goes at it with gusto and gives us a great book Saskia Sassen author of Territory Authority Rights Wall Street WomenMelissa S Fisher is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University She is a the author of Wall Street Women and coeditor of Frontiers of Capital Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy both published by Duke University Press,
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You get a thorough description of what took place in the early days to make it such easy access for many today. Book about wall street That the organizations they had created to foster friendships and mentoring in the financial world among women had changed and that they no longer seemed to belong. A random walk down wall street kindle And that the political world which many had been involved with through the Women s Campaign Fund in the 90s was increasingly partisan.
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