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The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series) - Softcover

Bolles, A. Lynn

 
9781930618916: The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1930618913 ISBN 13: 9781930618916
Verlag: SAR Press (a division of the School for Advanced Research, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

As "globalization" moves rapidly from buzzword to cliché, evaluating the claims of neoliberal capitalism to empower and enrich remains urgently important. The authors in this volume employ feminist, ethnographic methods to examine what free trade and export processing zones, economic liberalization, and currency reform mean to women in Argentina, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Ghana, the United States, India, Jamaica, and many other places. Heralded as agents of prosperity and liberation, neoliberal economic policies have all too often refigured and redoubled the burdens of gender, race, caste, class, and regional subordination that women bear. Traders, garment factory operatives, hotel managers and maids, small farmers and agricultural laborers, garbage pickers, domestic caregivers, daughters, wives, and mothers

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ann Kingsolver is the Director of the Appalachian Studies Program and Center at the University of Kentucky. Her single-authored books include NAFTA Stories: Fears and Hopes in Mexico and the United States (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001) and Tobacco Town Futures: Global Encounters in Rural Kentucky (Waveland, 2011).

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Verlag
SAR Press (a division of the School for Advanced Research
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1930618913
ISBN 13 
9781930618916
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
376
Herausgeber
Kingsolver Ann
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