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- catalog abstract ""How does the standard of living of gay men and lesbians compare with that of heterosexuals? Do homosexuals make financial and family decisions differently? Are the professional lives of gay men and lesbians similar to those of heterosexuals? Or do they differ? Have gay people benefitted from the recent economic boom? Or have public policies denied them their fair share?" "Money, Myths, and Change provides surprising 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 closer, 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12170934.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""How does the standard of living of gay men and lesbians compare with that of heterosexuals? Do homosexuals make financial and family decisions differently? Are the professional lives of gay men and lesbians similar to those of heterosexuals? Or do they differ? Have gay people benefitted from the recent economic boom? Or have public policies denied them their fair share?" "Money, Myths, and Change provides surprising 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 closer, 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-287) and index.".
- catalog description "List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : meeting the myths -- Economic penalty for being gay -- Costs of the closet -- Compensation discrimination revisited : benefits -- Queer conspicuous consumption -- Family resemblance -- Reducing inequities, part 1 : public policy and the workplace -- Reducing inequities, part 2 : family policies -- Economic strategies for social change -- Prospects for the future.".
- catalog extent "xii, 302 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0226034003".
- catalog isPartOf "Worlds of desire".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "305.9/0664 21".
- catalog subject "Gays Economic conditions.".
- catalog subject "HQ76.25 .B33 2001".
- catalog subject "Homosexuality Economic aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : meeting the myths -- Economic penalty for being gay -- Costs of the closet -- Compensation discrimination revisited : benefits -- Queer conspicuous consumption -- Family resemblance -- Reducing inequities, part 1 : public policy and the workplace -- Reducing inequities, part 2 : family policies -- Economic strategies for social change -- Prospects for the future.".
- catalog title "Money, myths, and change : the economic lives of lesbians and gay men / M.V. Lee Badgett.".
- catalog type "text".