Men of Money: Elite Masculinities and the Neoliberal Project

Lynn Horton's book explores how finance and technology are shaping new forms of elite masculinity, linking economic inequalities to identity politics of gender and race. She examines the lives and discourse of ultra-visible male billionaires, highlighting how extreme accumulations of wealth are imbued with gendered celebrity and moral authority and contested. Neoliberalism draws on these masculinities to amplify and naturalize market-centered assumptions, values, and practices, permeating neoliberal discourse of markets, the state, and the household.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 242 pages
Publication date: 26 April 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Sociologist Lynn Horton delves into the impact of finance and technology on elite masculinity, uncovering the connections between economic disparities and identity politics. She examines the lives and discourse of ultra-visible male billionaires, revealing how extreme wealth accumulation is intertwined with gendered celebrity and moral authority, while also being fiercely contested. Horton highlights how neoliberalism, an ideological project backed by elite-funded networks, leverages these masculinities to reinforce and normalize market-driven beliefs, values, and practices. Gender systems, which shape relational and hierarchical notions of masculinity and femininity, permeate neoliberal discourse across markets, the state, and the household. Furthermore, Horton explores the tensions and connections between technocratic elite masculinities, which reject overt sexism and discrimination, and right-wing populist movements that mobilize gendered and racialized anti-elite rhetoric.

Weight: 380g
Dimension: 152 x 227 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781786613721