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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 | |