Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism

Name: Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism
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ISBN: 9780415951456

ISBN-10: 0415951453

ISBN-13: 9780415951456

Edition: 2007

Authors: Melissa Wright

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Everyday, around the world, women who work in the third world factories of global firms face the idea that they are disposable. Melissa W. Wright explains how this notion proliferates, both within and beyond factory walls, through the telling of a simple story: the myth of the disposable third world woman. This myth explains how young women workers around the world eventually turn into living forms of waste.Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalismfollows this myth inside the global factories and surrounding cities in northern Mexico and in southern China, illustrating the crucial role the tale plays in maintaining not just the constant flow of global capital, but the present…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946

Melissa W. Wright is Associate Professor of Geography and Women's Studies at The Pennsylvania State University.



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism



Storylines



Disposable Daughters and Factory Fathers



Manufacturing Bodies



The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Disposability



Disruptions



Maquiladora Mestizas and a Feminist Border Politics



Crossing the Factory Frontier



Paradoxes and Protests


Notes


Bibliography


Index