The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities

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Pub. Date: 2008-02-28
Publisher(s): Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Table of Contents

List of Figures
Foreword: Reflections on the Production of Differentiation
Introductionp. 8
Feminist Methodology as a Tool for Ethnographic Inquiry on Globalizationp. 23
Producing Threads, Consuming Garb: Women Traversing Global Clothing Markets
Disrupting Subordination and Negotiating Belonging: Women Workers in the Transnational Production Sites of Sri Lankap. 35
Making Hay while the Sun Shines: Ghanaian Female Traders and Their Insertion into the Global Economyp. 61
Clothing Difference: Commodities and Consumption in Southeastern Liberiap. 85
Racialized Policies, Scarred Bodies: Women Transposing Neoliberal Violence
Progressive Women, Traditional Men: Globalization, Migration, and Equality in the Northern Periphery of the European Unionp. 105
Neoliberal Policy as Structural Violence: Its Links to Domestic Violence in Black Communities in the United Statesp. 127
Gendered Bodily Scars of Neoliberal Globalization in Argentinap. 147
Servicing Leisure, Serving Class: Women Transgressing Global Circuits of Care
Geographies of Race and Class: The Place and Placelessness of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workersp. 171
Sticking to the Union: Anthropologists and "Union Maids" in San Franciscop. 197
"The Caribbean Is on Sale": Globalization and Women Tourist Workers in Jamaicap. 215
Contesting Marginalities, Imagining Alternatives: Women Transforming Global Coalitions
In the Fields of Free Trade: Gender and Plurinational En/Countering of Neoliberal Agricultural Policiesp. 235
Globalization, Swadeshi, and Women's Movements in Orissa, Indiap. 257
Concluding Essays
Complex Negotiations: Gender, Capitalism, and Relations of Powerp. 279
Navigating Paradoxical Globalizationsp. 287
Reconstituting Marginality: Gendered Repression and Women's Resistancep. 293
Referencesp. 301
Indexp. 345
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