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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Meet the Players | |
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Putting Things in Perspective | |
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The Function of Maps | |
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Are Things What They Seem to Be? Reading Maps and Statistics | |
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Gender Issues in Labour Statistics | |
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Fracturing Binarisms: First and Third Worlds | |
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One-Third/Two-Thirds Worlds | |
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How Textbooks Around the World Portray U.S. History: The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny | |
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Lapulapu and Magellan | |
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Mass Media: For the Many, by the Few | |
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Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Colonialism and Its Legacy | |
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Empire as a Way of Life | |
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How It Began | |
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Eurocentrism | |
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The Legacy of Colonialism | |
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa | |
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Colonialism in Africa, 1914 (map) | |
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Open Veins of Latin America | |
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Women, Colonisation, and Racism | |
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The Myth of Catching-up Development | |
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The Second Coming of Columbus: Piracy Through Patents | |
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Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Constructing Difference: Creating "Other" Identities | |
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Assigning Value to Difference | |
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Hatred Written on the Body | |
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Stories from Rwanda | |
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Construction of an Enemy | |
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On Being South Asian in North America | |
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Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab Jew | |
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Old and New Identities | |
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Sexual Identities: Western Imperialism? | |
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Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Patriarchy and Domination | |
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The Patriarchal Family | |
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The Foundation of Gender Identity: Garaba, Relational Connectivity, and Patriarchy | |
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Gender, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley | |
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Daughters and Generals in the Politics of the Globalized Sneaker | |
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Violence Against Women | |
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Culture of Honor, Culture of Change: A Feminist Analysis of Honor Killings in Rural Turkey | |
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The Connection Between Militarism and Violence Against Women | |
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The Impact of Political Conflict on Women: The Case of Afghanistan | |
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Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Poverty, Inequality, and Structural Violence | |
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Inequality in the Global Village | |
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Poverty and Inequality in the Global Economy | |
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Is World Poverty Falling? | |
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A Critical Look at Measurements of Economic Progress | |
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The Current State of Global Health | |
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Macroeconomics of Health: No Health Available at $7.50 per Person per Year | |
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Suffering and Structural Violence | |
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Testimony by FannyAnn Eddy at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights | |
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Facts on Child Labour | |
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World Poverty and Hunger Fact Sheet | |
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Women and the Poor: The Challenge of Global Justice | |
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Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Transnational Institutions and the Global Economy | |
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Globalization and Its Discontents: The Promise of Global Institutions | |
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Race, Poverty, and Globalization | |
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On the Backs of Women and Children | |
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Privatization and Urban Issues: A Global Perspective | |
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Plunder and Profit | |
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The WTO and Globalization | |
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The Globalization of Poverty | |
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Shall We Leave It to the Experts? | |
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Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Globalization in Everyday Life | |
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The Human Face of Economics in Argentina | |
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The Maquila in Guatemala: Facts and Trends | |
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Plan Puebla Panama | |
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GE Goes South | |
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Ground Down in the Fields: Coffee and State Authority in Colombia | |
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Latin American Indigenous Movements in the Context of Globalization | |
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Globalization and the Caribbean | |
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Debts, Reforms, and Social Services in Africa | |
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The Impact of Water Privatization on South African Women | |
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Water Privatization Charts | |
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Global Apartheid: AIDS and Murder by Patent | |
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The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline | |
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Squeezed by Debt and Time, Mothers Ship Babies to China | |
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Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy | |
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Exporting Harm: The High Tech Trashing of Asia | |
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The Globalized Village | |
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Your Farm Subsidies Are Strangling Us | |
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How Europe Sows Misery in Africa | |
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India's Poor Starve as Wheat Rots | |
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The Crisis of Potato Growers in U.P. | |
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Study Finds TV Trims Fiji Girls' Body Image and Eating Habits | |
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The World Bank and the "Next Green Revolution": Devastating IMF/World Bank Sponsored Environmental Projects in the Name of Progress | |
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Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Toward a More Equitable Future: Grassroots Movements for Social Change | |
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Small Is Beautiful: Airports, McDonald's, and Hypermarkets in Mexico | |
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Building Water Democracy: People's Victory Against Coca-Cola in Plachimada | |
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Nigerian Women Win Out Against Oil Giants | |
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The New Student Movement | |
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Filipino Dump Activists Turn Waste into Wealth | |
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The Grameen Bank | |
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A Sampling of NGOs Working for Social Change | |
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Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | |
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Afterword | |
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The Cost of American Privilege | |
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Index | |