Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities - Couverture souple

Kingsolver, Ann E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847012035 ISBN 13 : 9781847012036

Editeur : James Currey, 2008

Synopsis

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 examinewhat 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. Heralded as agents of prosperity and liberation neoliberal economic policies have all too often refigured and redoubled the burdens of gender, race, caste, class, and regional subordination that women bear. North America: School for Advanced Research Press

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Présentation de l'éditeur

As "globalization" moves rapidly from buzzword to cliché, 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. Heralded as agents of prosperity and liberation, neoliberal economic policies have all too often refigured and redoubled the burdens of gender, race, caste, class, and regional subordination that women bear. Traders, garment factory operatives, hotel managers and maids, small farmers and agricultural laborers, garbage pickers, domestic caregivers, daughters, wives, and mothers

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: James Currey
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847012035
• ISBN 13: 9781847012036
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 465
• Éditeur: Gunewardena Nandini
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible