ISBN:
0415776791
,
0415776805
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9780415776790
,
9780415776806
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxx, 289 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
RIPE series in global political economy
Series Statement:
RIPE Series in Global Political Economy Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender and Global Restructuring : Sightings, Sites and Resistances
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
International economic relations
;
Women Case studies Social conditions
;
Women - Social conditions
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Offers analyses of the relationship between gender and neoliberal globalization under the imperialism in the post-9/11 context. This book examines the disciplining politics of race, sexuality and modernity under securitized globalization, including case studies on domestic workers in Hong Kong
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments for the second edition; Acknowledgements for the first edition; Abbreviations; Introduction: Feminist sightings of global: Old and new conceptualizations; Part I: Sightings; 1 Globalization and its intimate other: Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong; 2 Querying globalization: Sexual subjectivities, development, and the governance of intimacy; 3 Governing gender in neoliberal restructuring: Economics, performativity, and social reproduction
Description / Table of Contents:
4 Where the streets have no name": Getting development out of the (RED)TM?Part II: Sites; 5 Global restructuring and women's economic citizenship in North Africa; 6 Remittances, gender, and development; 7 Women's work unbound: Philippine development and global restructuring; 8 The ""making women productive" strategy: Uncovering gendered sightings, sites, and resistances to global restructuring in rural Mexico; Part III: Resistances; 9 Globalization and gender at border sites: Femicide and domestic violence in Ciudad Juárez
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Reclaiming spaces of resistance: Women's human rights and global restructuring11 Globalization, feminism, and information society; Conclusion: Restructuring the intimate, the local, and the global: Towards "post"-neoliberal imperialism?; Postscript: Gender and (post?) financial crisis; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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