The Secret Sex of Money. Clara Coria

      

      THE SECRET SEX

      OF

      MONEY

      Forms of female dependence

      ANDROGYNOUS 21

      Credits

      © Clara Coria

      First published in Argentina in 1986

      Original title:

      El sexo oculto del dinero -

      Formas de la dependencia femenina

      First published in English with the title:

      The secret sex of money -

      Forms of female dependence

      © Pensódromo S.L., 2021

      English translation copyright © Mark Lodge

      Editor: Henry Odell - [email protected]

      Cover design: Cristina Martínez Balmaceda - Pensódromo

      ISBN: 978-84-124690-0-4

      This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being impose on the subsequent purchaser.

      Work published under the “Sur” Support Program to Translations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of the Argentine Republic.

      Obra editada en el marco del Programa “Sur” de Apoyo a las Traducciones del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto de la República Argentina.

      Table of Content

       Cover

       Title Page

       Credits

       Editor’s prologue

       As a prologue

       25 years later

       Introduction

       Origins

       Referential framework

       The contents

       Some important clarifications

       Bibliographic References

       I. Women’s economic dependence

       Economic dependence:

       The phantasm of prostitution

       Money and sex: a fundamental transgression (modesty, shame and guilt)

       Bibliographic References

       II. The benefits of economic dependence in women

       The primary gain: anxiety versus freedom experienced as transgression

       The secondary gains of economic dependence

       Protection: a seductive siren’s call…

       A suggestive triad: “small” money, restricted space and indiscriminate time

       Bibliographic References

       III. Love and money: maternal altruism versus manly speculation?

       A female paradigm: the maternal ideal

       “Mr Money is a mighty gentleman”

       Professional fees or the money “that is charged”. A difficult dilemma to solve: bad mother or public woman?

       Bibliographic References

       IV. Money in a marital partnership

       A partnership in which some people are more equal than others

       “Big” money and “small” money

       Money for dependence

       Bibliographic References

       V. A particular distribution of power: The kids are mine and the money is yours

       The “queen” of the home

       Are children, as instruments of power, equal to money?

       The myth of the “hidden power”

       Bibliographic References

       VI. Men and the accumulation of money

       Money, an indicator of masculinity?