Gendering Globalized Flows in Bertrand Bonello’s Tiresia

Gendering the Job:

Gender segregation of jobs plays a central role in current research on gender and labor markets, and understanding the mechanisms driving the gender segregation has become a key focus of study. While the literature on gender segregation of jobs often invoke gender sorting mechanisms that operate pre-hire, the data that are used to empirically examine these processes are almost always collected ...

Gendering Socialist Popular Cultures

Bertrand competition

Bertrand competition is a model of competition used in economics, named after Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822-1900). Specifically, it is a model of price competition between duopoly firms which results in each charging the price that would be charged under perfect competition, known as marginal cost pricing. The model has the following assumptions: There are at least two firms producing ho...

Gendering the Internet

j In this article the mutual shaping of the Internet and gender is analysed. Common claims that the Internet constitutes a masculine or contrarily a feminine environment are critically discussed, as well as the cyberfeminist contention that the Internet enables new identities not limited by gender. It is argued instead that gender and the Internet are multidimensional concepts that are articula...

Bertrand Supertraps

We study oligopoly price competition between multiproduct firms, firms whose products interact in the profit function. Specifically, we focus on the impact of intra-firm product interactions on the level of equilibrium profits. This impact is divided into two effects: a direct effect and a strategic effect (i.e., through the competitors’ actions). We derive conditions such that the strategic ef...