This collection of revealing articles shows the reality of globalisation as it is experienced by women workers at the bottom of society throughout the world. An underlying theme shared by all the contributions is that prevailing feminist theory has failed to recognise the key issues of class, nation, and locality at the heart of the world-wide exploitation of women. It is only through opposition within these areas that women's collective agency will produce substantial and enduring changes.
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Delia D. Aguilar is the author of THE FEMINIST CHALLENGE, FILIPINO HOUSEWIVES SPEAK, and TOWARD A NATIONALIST FEMINISM. Formerly an associate professor of women's studies and ethnic studies at Bowling Green State University and Washington State University, she now teacher women's studies at the University of Connecticut.
Anne E. Lacsamana is assistant professor in women's studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She has published numerous articles in AMERASIA JOURNAL, SOCIALIST REVIEW, AGAINST THE CURRENT, SYNTHESIS, and other journals.
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The book is accessible to non-academic readers and perfect for college courses in ethnic studies, women's studies, cultural studies, political science, and others. Its primary goal is to expose and analyze globalization's exploitation of poor women, mostly in labor and migration; a secondary goal is to expose and analyze most academics' misunderstandings of this exploitation, a misunderstanding that, according to the closing argument by editor Aguilar, practically re-colonizes the already exploited. Exploitation on all continents and several island nations is covered. But the tone is not desperate and resigned. Rather, the writers here advocate a committed and informed urgency. One contributor argues that "international solidarity is necessary" in the work of ending the exploitation of impoverished women, but she insists that her "global vision" is realizable.
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The collection of articles in Women and Globalization is important for activists, scholars, and concerned human beings looking to understand how corporate globalization relies on the exploited labor of women (from around the world) to generate profits. The diverse writings discuss the concrete conditions of women who are working in such places as Mexico, the Philippines, and South Africa. Furthermore, the writings congeal to provide a clear, explanatory, and absolutely critical analysis of a global economic system that is seeping with contradictions. I highly recommend this book! It is an important read with a great balance of case study material and theory.
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This book offers an unfiltered analysis and critique of the effects of globalization, past and present, on nations in the developing world. The contributors of the book account for the neoliberal policies implemented by international financial institutions and governments, and how those policies deeply affect peoples' labor and migratory patterns. Additionally, "Women and Globalization" pays particular attention to culture, society, race, economics, the environment, and politics and how they are all interrelated within the circumstances of women's lives, as women are the majority of the world's laborers.
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One wonders whether, with the events of September 11, 2001, and the declaration of a "war on terror" by U.S. president George W. Bush, a paradigm shift would be forced on the academic mind from Hardt and Negri's view of a benign "Empire" to that of El Saadawi, who sees the United States as the world's ruling power that is neither kind nor gentle either at home or overseas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, South Africa, Southeast Asia, World Bank, Mexico City, Piedras Negras, Kuala Lumpur, First World, Hong Kong, Latin America, United Nations, Cape Town, International Monetary Fund, Zed Books, New Straits Times, Orange Free State, Dominican Republic, Human Rights Watch, Voices Coalition, Joe Gqabi, San Francisco, Central America, Cold War, Filipino Nurses Support Group New!
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One wonders whether, with the events of September 11, 2001, and the declaration of a "war on terror" by U.S. president George W. Bush, a paradigm shift would be forced on the academic mind from Hardt and Negri's view of a benign "Empire" to that of El Saadawi, who sees the United States as the world's ruling power that is neither kind nor gentle either at home or overseas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, South Africa, Southeast Asia, World Bank, Mexico City, Piedras Negras, Kuala Lumpur, First World, Hong Kong, Latin America, United Nations, Cape Town, International Monetary Fund, Zed Books, New Straits Times, Orange Free State, Dominican Republic, Human Rights Watch, Voices Coalition, Joe Gqabi, San Francisco, Central America, Cold War, Filipino Nurses Support Group New!
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