Gender of Globalization Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities

Name: Gender of Globalization Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities
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ISBN: 9781930618916

ISBN-10: 1930618913

ISBN-13: 9781930618916

Edition: 2007

Authors: Nandini Gunewardena, Ann Kingsolver

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press/SAR Press
Publication date: 1/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Figures


Foreword: Reflections on the Production of Differentiation




Introduction




Feminist Methodology as a Tool for Ethnographic Inquiry on Globalization




Producing Threads, Consuming Garb: Women Traversing Global Clothing Markets



Disrupting Subordination and Negotiating Belonging: Women Workers in the Transnational Production Sites of Sri Lanka




Making Hay while the Sun Shines: Ghanaian Female Traders and Their Insertion into the Global Economy




Clothing Difference: Commodities and Consumption in Southeastern Liberia




Racialized Policies, Scarred Bodies: Women Transposing Neoliberal Violence



Progressive Women, Traditional Men: Globalization, Migration, and Equality in the Northern Periphery of the European Union




Neoliberal Policy as Structural Violence: Its Links to Domestic Violence in Black Communities in the United States




Gendered Bodily Scars of Neoliberal Globalization in Argentina




Servicing Leisure, Serving Class: Women Transgressing Global Circuits of Care



Geographies of Race and Class: The Place and Placelessness of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers




Sticking to the Union: Anthropologists and "Union Maids" in San Francisco




"The Caribbean Is on Sale": Globalization and Women Tourist Workers in Jamaica




Contesting Marginalities, Imagining Alternatives: Women Transforming Global Coalitions



In the Fields of Free Trade: Gender and Plurinational En/Countering of Neoliberal Agricultural Policies




Globalization, Swadeshi, and Women's Movements in Orissa, India




Concluding Essays



Complex Negotiations: Gender, Capitalism, and Relations of Power




Navigating Paradoxical Globalizations




Reconstituting Marginality: Gendered Repression and Women's Resistance



References


Index