M V Lee Badgett All Books: Money, Myths sku-42887322

M V Lee Badgett's hardcover book Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men is part of the Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture. Listed under All Books as SKU sku-42887322, it examines the economic lives of gay men and lesbians in the United States.

Badgett compares their income, living standards, work, family decisions, and consumer behavior with those of heterosexuals. She challenges stereotypes about gay affluence, conspicuous consumption, and lifestyle, and discusses workplace discrimination, health benefits for domestic partners and children, access to marriage, corporate marketing to gay consumers, and the use of economic influence for social and political change.

The book also considers the effects of economic growth and public policy.