The wages of empire : neoliberal policies, repression, and women's poverty

The wages of empire : neoliberal policies, repression, and women's poverty /

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Other Authors: Cabezas, Amalia L., Reese, Ellen, 1969-, Waller, Marguerite R., 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, ©2007.
Series:Transnational feminist studies
Subjects:
Women > Economic conditions > Cross-cultural studies.
Women > Developing countries > Economic conditions.
Sex discrimination against women > Cross-cultural studies.
Globalization > Economic aspects.
International trade > Economic aspects.
Sex discrimination against women.
Women > Economic conditions.
Frau
Globalisierung
Neoliberalismus
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Wirtschaftspolitik
Developing countries.
Entwicklungsländer.
Cross-cultural studies.
Table of Contents:
  • The policies and ideologies of neoliberal globalization
  • Introduction
  • The vicious cycle of AIDS, poverty, and neoliberalism / Bernardo Useche and Amalia Cabezas
  • In her name: the gender order of global poverty management / Ananya Roy
  • Under the western eyes of fashion: Marie Claire's construction of Global feminism / Jennifer Lynn Stoever
  • Impacts of neoliberal policy and ideology: case studies
  • Tea's fortunes and famines: global capital, women workers, and survival in Indian plantation country / Piya Chatterjee
  • Macroeconomics and microentrepreneurs: comparing two island nations' responses to neo-liberalism and its impact on women's lives / Marina Karides
  • Politicians, think tanks, and the global promotion of the "Wisconsin Model" of welfare reform / Ellen Reese
  • Service provisioning as political activity: struggles for citizenship in Britain's declining welfare state / Tracy Fisher
  • Laboring under corporate globalization: case studies
  • Neoliberalism, globalization, and the international division of care / Joya Misra and Sabine N. Merz
  • The tortilla behemoth: sexualized despotism and women's resistance in a transnational Mexican tortilla factory / Carolina Bank Mũnoz
  • Roses, thorns, and seven dollars a day: women workers in Colombia's export flower industry / Cynthia Mellon
  • The process of exporting neoliberal development: the consequences of the growth of Export Processing Zones in El Salvador / Jill Esbenshade
  • War and military repression
  • Bacteria, bioterrorism, and the geranium ladies of Guatemala / Caitilyn Allen
  • Globalization denied: gender and poverty in Iraq and Palestine / Jennifer Olmsted
  • Amazons go to war without weapons: women and the conflict in Escravos Niger Delta / Joy Ngozi Ezeilo
  • Building empire on the backs of women: U.S. actions or the role of the United States in Afghanistan / Sonali Kolhatkar
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the editors and contributors.

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