Gendered Money

Money is rarely mentioned in relation to women's organizing for equality, contend economic historians Jonsson (Swedish National Audit Office) and Neunsinger (Labour Movement Archives and Library, Stockholm). Even feminist researchers have tended to not "sully their hands" with the male-defined sphere of money (as Gilla D o lle put it). The authors examine access to, and the strategic use of, resources as a highly gendered concept in struggles to overcome economic/political constraints. Relying on primary sources, they apply social movement theory in comparative case studies of the first Swedish national women's organization, a later socialist one, and similar organizations in Europe and Canada. The volume includes a glossary of Swedish terms and supporting figures and tables. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Pernilla Jonsson is Associate Professor in economic history and is currently working at The Swedish National Audit Office. She has been a researcher at the Department of Economic History at Uppsala University, Sweden Her research deals with the influence of resources, financial strategies, and international networks on organizing and goal achievements in the first-wave women's movement. She has also published on gender and the social reproduction of Swedish elites, as well as industrialization and marketing in 19thcentury Sweden.

Silke Neunsinger is Associate Professor in economic history and Coordinator of Research at the Labour Movement Archives and Library in Stockholm. She and has been a researcher in the Department of Economic History, the Centre for Feminist research, and the Department of History at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research deals with women's right in the labor market, women in international and transnational social movements, and the global history of consumer cooperatives. She has also worked and published on methodological issues and comparative history.