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The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economics Marginalities
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Kingsolver, Ann, and Nandini Gunewardena, eds. 2008. The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economics Marginalities. Oxford: School for Advanced Research Press.
Authors: Ann Kingsolver, Nandini Gunewardena
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As "globalization" moves rapidly from buzzword to cliche, evaluating the claims of neoliberal capitalism to empower and enrich remains urgently important. The authors in this volume employ feminist, ethnographic methods to examine what free trade and export processing zones, economic liberalization, and currency reform mean to women in Argentina, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Ghana, the United States, India, Jamaica, and many other places (Summary from Jacket).
Table of Contents:
1. Feminist methodology as a tool for ethnographic inquiry on globalization
Faye V. Harrison
2. Disrupting subordination and negotiating belonging : women workers in the transnational production sites of Sri Lanka
Nandini Gunewardena
3. Making hay while the sun shines : Ghanaian female traders and their insertion into the global economy
Akosua K. Darkwah
4. Clothing difference : commodities and consumption in Southeastern Liberia
Mary H. Moran
5. Progressive women, traditional men : globalization, migration, and equality in the northern periphery of the European Union
Ulrika Dahl
6. Neoliberal policy as structural violence : its links to domestic violence in black communities in the United States
William L. Conwill
7. Gendered bodily scars of neoliberal globalization in Argentina
Barbara Sutton
8. Geographies of race and class : the place and placelessness of migrant Filipina domestic workers
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
9. Sticking to the union : anthropologists and "union maids" in San Francisco
Sandy Smith-Nonini
10. "The Caribbean is on sale" : globalization and women tourist workers in Jamaica
A. Lynn Bolles
11. In the fields of free trade : gender and plurinational en/countering of neoliberal agricultural policies
Ann Kingsolver
12. Globalization, "swadeshi", and women's movements in Orissa, India
Annapurna Pandey
13. Complex negotiations : gender, capitalism, and relations of power
Mary Anglin and Louise Lamphere
14. Navigating paradoxical globalizations
Ann Kingsolver
15. Reconstituting marginality : gendered repression and women's resistance
Nandini Gunewardena.
Topics: Economies, Globalization, Multi-National Corporations, Privatization Regions: Africa, North Africa, West Africa, Americas, Caribbean countries, North America, South America, Asia, South Asia, Europe, Western Europe Countries: Argentina, Ghana, India, Jamaica, Liberia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, United States of America
Year: 2008
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