Women Reinventing Globalisation
Author: Caroline Sweetman
Publisher:
Published: 2003
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ISBN-13: 9780855988814
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Publisher:
Published: 2003
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ISBN-13: 9780855988814
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Caroline Sweetman
Publisher: Oxfam
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780855984922
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume analyses approaches to economic and political change and propose ways of ensuring that ideas are translated into concrete actions. The aim is to re-politicise the gender and development community with a solutions-oriented approach which looks at globalisation through women's eyes, and finds energising ideas.
Author: Valentine M. Moghadam
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2005-02-16
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780801880247
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the Victoria Schuck award given by the American Political Science Association and an Honorable Mention in the Distinguished Book Award given by the Political Economy of World Systems section of the American Sociological Association Globalization may offer modern feminism its greatest opportunity and greatest challenge. Allowing communication and information exchange while also exacerbating economic and social inequalities, globalization has fostered the growth of transnational feminist networks (TFNs). These groups have used the Internet to build coalitions, lobby governments, and advance the goals of feminism. Globalizing Women explains how the negative and positive aspects of globalization have helped to create transnational networks of activists and organizations with common agendas. Sociologist Valentine M. Moghadam discusses six such feminist networks to analyze the organization, objectives, programs, and outcomes of these groups in their effort to improve conditions for women throughout the world. Moghadam also examines how "globalizing women" are responding to and resisting growing inequalities, the exploitation of female labor, and patriarchal fundamentalisms. This book is an important addition to literature exploring feminism as well as to the broader discussion of the impact of transnational social movements and organizations in the globalized world.
Author: Nancy A. Naples
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-04-16
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1135955174
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Lourdes Beneria
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-07-24
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1136263667
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gender, Development, and Globalization is the leading primer on global feminist economics and development. Lourdes Benería, a pioneer in the field of feminist economics, is joined in this second edition by Gunseli Berik and Maria Floro to update the text to reflect the major theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions and global developments in the last decade. Its interdisciplinary investigation remains accessible to a broad audience interested in an analytical treatment of the impact of globalization processes on development and wellbeing in general and on social and gender equality in particular. The revision will continue to provide a wide-ranging discussion of the strategies and policies that hold the most promise in promoting equitable and sustainable development. The authors make the case for feminist economics as a useful framework to address major contemporary global challenges, such as inequalities between the global South and North as well as within single countries; persistent poverty; and increasing vulnerability to financial crises, food crises, and climate change. The authors’ approach is grounded in the intellectual current of feminism and human development, drawing on Amartya Sen’s capability approach and focused on the importance of the care economy, increasing pressures faced by women, and the failures of neoliberal reforms to bring about sustainable development, reduction in poverty, inequality, and vulnerability to economic crisis.
Author: Eleanor Abdella Doumato
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781588261342
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work assesses the impact of globalization on women in Middle Eastern societies. To explore the gendered effects of social change, the authors examine trends within, as well as among, states in the region. Detailed case studies reveal the mixed results of global pressures.
Author: Lourdes Beneria
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 131782783X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With Cold War politics lost as the organizing principle behind international politics, development has become the most import policy goal of every international organization. There is an underside (and a human side) to development, and feminism has made inroads into the highly technical debates and frothy prophecies by examining what the future really holds for the people who will live it. This book highlights the ways in which feminist analysis has contributed to a richer understanding of international development and globalization. By combining theoretical, empirical, and political perspectives and discussing cutting-edge debates around development, globalization, economic restructuring, and feminist economics, Gender, Development and Globalization presents the ultimate primer on global feminist economics.
Author: Sheila Rowbotham
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scholars and organizers record and analyse women's grassroots activism in two key areas: claims to livelihood and human rights. [back cover].
Author: Trish Tierney
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780872063594
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Marjorie Griffin Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780415769976
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyses changes in gender relations, as a result of globalization, in countries on the semi-periphery of power. Semi-periphery refers to those nations which are not drivers of change globally, but have enough economic and political security to have some power in determining their own responses to global forces. Individual countries obviously face challenges that are to some extent unique, although the prescriptions for economic and social restructuring are based on a common competitive logic. Remapping Gender in the New Global Order draws on examples from four countries on the semi-periphery of power but still located in the top category of the UNDP’s Human Development Index. At one end is Norway, one of the world’s richest and most developed welfare-states, and, at the other, is Mexico, a country that is considerably poorer and more susceptible to the power of the United States and international agencies. Australia and Canada, the other two semi-peripheral countries examined, are in the middle. Also included are comparisons with the epicentre of the ‘core’ base of power – the United States. The individual chapters focus on the effect on specific groups of people, including males and indigenous groups, the mechanisms people use to both cope with dramatic social changes, and the strategies and alliances that are used to affect the course of changes. It covers topics that range from implications of labour migration on care regimes to globalism’s effect on masculinity and the ‘male breadwinner’ model.