ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how money acts as an integral aspect of the gender system, and how the logic of money itself is modified through the framework of the gender relations. It analyzes how wealth, spending, work and wages are associated with, and often affected by, gender. Work implies the use of human abilities belonging to the sphere of gift exchange, and parts of work's products belong there too. Women have access to money through their own work, but a number of women are still dependent on their husbands for money. The money managers are women which own and/or manage wealth often acquired through heritage. Money makes impersonalized exchange possible on a large scale and can therefore be seen as a prerequisite for the intertwined development of the market and the autonomous person. Women's access to their own money has therefore also strengthened the transaction barrier between the market sphere and the sphere of gift exchange.
