Ladies of the ticker : women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression /

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"Long overlooked in histories of finance, women played an essential role in areas such as banking and the stock market during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet their presence sparked ongoing controversy. Hetty Green's golden touch brought her millions, but she outraged...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Robb, George (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Temas:
Women in finance > United States > History.
Women capitalists and financiers > United States > History.
Finance > United States > History.
Femmes dans les finances > États-Unis > Histoire.
Femmes capitalistes et financières > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Finance.
Women capitalists and financiers.
Women in finance.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: opportunities and obstacles
  • The vortex of speculation: picturing women investors
  • Engendering finance: women and Wall Street
  • Lambs to be fleeced and petticoated sharks: women and financial fraud
  • Turning Wall Street inside out: Victoria Woodhull and the feminist debate on finance
  • Call me Madam Ishmael: Hetty Green and the female tycoon
  • Epilogue and conclusion.

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