Gender

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Peterson, V. Spike. 2012. “Rethinking Theory.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 14 (1): 5–35. doi:10.1080/14616742.2011.631276.

Author: V. Spike Peterson

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‘Capitalist racist patriarchy’ is how Zillah Eisenstein (1998) characterizes global inequalities and the hierarchies of ‘difference’ they constitute. This article assumes that feminist theory aims not only to ‘empower women’ but to advance critical analyses of intersecting structural hierarchies; that this entails not only a critique of patriarchy but its complex conjunction with capitalism and racism; and that such critique requires rethinking theory. Through a critical lens on devalued (‘feminized’) informal work worldwide, the article explores how positivist, modernist and masculinist commitments variously operate in prevailing theories of informality – including those of feminists – with the effect of impeding both intersectional analyses and more adequate critiques of capitalist racist patriarchy. 

Keywords: critical theory, difference, feminism, feminist theory, Gender, global political economy, informal economy, intersectionality, IR, masculinism, modernism

Topics: Feminisms, Gender, Masculinity/ies, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Political Economies, Race

Year: 2012

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Seguino, Stephanie. 2006. “The  Great Equalizer?: Globalization Effects on Gender Equality in Latin America and  the Caribbean.” In Globalization and the Myth of Free Trade, edited by Anwar Shaikh. London: Routledge.

Author: Stephanie Seguino

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This paper assesses the impact of 30 years of globalization on gender equity in well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean. Data indicates that while some gaps in well-being have narrowed, progress is uneven across a set of nine indicators, and in some cases, conditions have worsened. Despite the optimism of market proponents, growth is not found to be an equalizer for gender anymore than it has been shown to be by class. The results here indicate that growth exhibits a negative effect on some indicators, while growth of real government expenditures, female share of the labor force, and structural change variables exert a positive effect.

Keywords: globalization, gender equality

Topics: Class, Economies, Gender, Women, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Gender Equity, Globalization, Political Economies Regions: Americas

Year: 2006

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Peterson, Spike V. 2005. “How (the Meaning Of) Gender Matters in Political Economy.” New Political Economy 10 (4): 499–521.

Author: Spike V. Peterson

Topics: Gender, Political Economies

Year: 2005

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Peterson, V. Spike. 2000. “A ‘Gendered Global Hierarchy’?” In Contending Images of World Politics, edited by Grey Frey and Jacinta O'Hagan, 199-213. London: Macmillan.

Author: V. Spike Peterson

Topics: Economies, Gender, Political Economies

Year: 2000

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Roe, Michael D. 1992. “Displaced Women in Settings of Continuing Armed Conflict.” Women & Therapy 13 (1-2): 89–10.

Author: Michael D. Roe

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Based on interview data and observations primarily from Central America and the Philippines, this article reviews the psychosocial adaptation of women forced to flee their homes due to armed conflict, but who remain in settings of war violence. The pervasive danger and fear in such settings impedes progress toward psychological and social equilibrium. These women experience terror, a spectrum of war-related emotional traumas, gender and family role instabilities, and sexual vulnerabilities. These women may also experience empowerment in the midst of armed conflict through the formation of new communities in which they share the leadership, through filling essential roles within these communities, and through concretization, in which they both analyze and take action against political and economic oppression and gender subordination.

Keywords: empowerment, female-headed households, gender subordination, migration adaptation

Topics: Armed Conflict, Displacement & Migration, Gender, Women, Gender Roles, Gendered Power Relations, Health, Mental Health, Trauma, Sexual Violence Regions: Americas, Central America, Asia, Southeast Asia Countries: Philippines

Year: 1992

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Marchand, Marianne H., and Anne Sisson Runyan, eds. 2010. Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites and Resistances. New York: Routledge.

Authors: Marianne H. Marchand, Anne Sisson Runyan

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In this new edition of this best selling text, interdisciplinary feminist experts from around the world provide new analyses of the ongoing relationship between gender and neoliberal globalization under the new imperialism in the post-9/11 context.

Divided into Sightings, Sites and Resistances, this book examines:

• the disciplining politics of race, sexuality and modernity under securitized globalization, including case studies on domestic workers in Hong Kong
• heteronormative development policies and responses to the crisis of social reproduction and colonizing responses to AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
• migration, human rights and citizenship, including studies on remittances, the emergence of neoliberal subjectivities among rural Mexican women, Filipina migrant workers and women’s labor organizing in the Middle East and North Africa
• feminist resistance, incorporating the latest scholarship on transnational feminism and feminist critical globalization movement activism, including case studies on men’s violence on the Mexico/US border, pan-indigenous women’s movements and cyberfeminism.

Providing a coherent and challenging approach to the issues of gender and the processes of globalization in the new millennium, this important text will be of interest to students and scholars of IPE, international relations, economics, development and gender studies. (Amazon)

Topics: Citizenship, Coloniality/Post-Coloniality, Development, Displacement & Migration, Migration, Economies, Feminisms, Gender, Globalization, Indigenous, Race, Rights, Human Rights, Sexuality

Year: 2010

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Marchand, Marianne H. 2003. “Challenging Globalisation: Toward a Feminist Understanding of Resistance.” Review of International Studies 29 (S1): 145–60. doi:10.1017/S0260210503005965.

Author: Marianne H. Marchand

Topics: Economies, Feminisms, Gender, Globalization, Political Economies

Year: 2003

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Marchand, Marianne H. 2001. “Gendering Globalization in an Era of Transnational Capital: New Cross-Border Alliances and Strategies of Resistance in a Post-NAFTA Mexico.” Working Paper 103, Institute for History, International, and Social Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Author: Marianne H. Marchand

Topics: Economies, Gender, Globalization, Political Economies Regions: Americas, North America Countries: Mexico

Year: 2001

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Marchand, Marianne H., Jill Steans, and Rahel Kunz. 2014. Gendering Global Political Economy. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Authors: Marianne H. Marchand, Jill Steans, Rahel Kunz

Topics: Economies, Gender, Political Economies

Year: 2014

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Luxton, Meg, and Kate Bezanson, eds. 2006. Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-Liberalism. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Authors: Meg Luxton, Kate Bezanson

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Using a feminist political economy approach, contributors document the impact of current socio-economic policies on states, markets, households, and communities. Relying on impressive empirical research, they argue that women bear the costs of and responsibility for care-giving and show that the theoretical framework provided by feminist analyses of social reproduction not only corrects the gender-blindness of most economic theories but suggests an alternative that places care-giving at its centre. In this illuminating study, they challenge feminist scholars to re-engage with materialism and political economy to engage with feminism. (Amazon)

Topics: Economies, Care Economies, Feminisms, Gender, Political Economies

Year: 2006