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100			_aMarlowa, Susan
245			_aGender, risk and finance _cwhy can't a woman be more like a man? / Marlowa, Susan.
260			_c2014
300			_a80-96
520			_aWhilst acknowledging that the influence of gender upon women's business ownership is now included as a legitimate addition to the contemporary entrepreneurship research agenda, we question the assumptions which frame this inclusion. We argue that whilst the masculinity of the entrepreneurial discourse has been recognized, this has promoted an almost exclusive focus upon women as the cipher for and personification of the gendered subject. Using explorations of risk and business finance in the context of entrepreneurship, we demonstrate how this presumption ascribes women a discrete but generic theoretical and empirical status associated with weakness and lack. Drawing upon a feminist stance, we suggest that the framing of this contemporary critique, rather than addressing the gender blindness endemic within entrepreneurship, actually generates ontological biases and associated epistemological limitations which perpetuate female disadvantage. These, in turn, constrain the theoretical and empirical reach of the broader field of entrepreneurship research.
650			_aFinance
650			_aRisk
650			_aGender
650			_aEntrepreneurship
773			_aEntrepreneurship & Regional Development _dJanuary
999			_c41540 _d41540