Gender and Global Restructuring

Sightings, Sites and Resistances

Marianne H. Marchand, Anne Sisson Runyan (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

1999
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-22174-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Taking us beyond the narrow limits of conventional approaches to globalization, this book reveals the complexities and contradictions inherent in global restructuring. The author argues that restructuring does not just relate to the material but also related to identity and geography.

Inhalt

Introduction: Feminist Sightings of Global Restructuring: Conceptualizations and Reconceptualizations Marianne H.Marchand and Anne Sisson Runyan Part One: Sightings 1. Globalization and its Intimate Other: Fillipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong Kimberley A. Chang and L.H.M Ling 2. Breaking Patriarchal Bonds: Demythologizing the Public/Private Gillian Youngs 3. Masculinities in Transition: The Case of Globalization Charlotte Hooper 4. Gendering Post-Socialist Transitions Jacqui True Part Two: Sites 5. Economic Restructuring and the Gender Contract: A Case Study of Jordan Valentine M. Moghadam 6. A Political Explanation of the Gendered Division of Labor in Japan Yumiko Mikanagi 7. Beyond a Reductionist Analysis of Female Migrants in Global European Cities: The Unskilled, Deskilled and Professional Eleonore Kofman 8. Women and Livelihood Strategies: A Case Study of Coping With Economic Crisis Through Household Management in Paramaribo, Surinam Mayke Kromhout Part Three: Resistances 9. Negotiating Boundaries: Women's Organisations and the Politics of Restructuring in Ecuador Amy Lind 10. Feminisms and Islamisms in Egypt: Between Globalization and Postmodernism Azza M.Karam 12. Dancing Resistance From Rio to Beijing: Transnational Women's Organizing and United Nations Conferences, 1992-6 Deborah Stienstra Conclusion: Feminist Approaches to Global Restructuring Anne Sison Runyan and Marianne H. Marchand

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.12.1999
• Reihe/Serie: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
• Zusatzinfo: 6 Tables, black and white
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 178 x 254 mm
• Gewicht: 567 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-415-22174-9 / 0415221749
• ISBN-13: 978-0-415-22174-0 / 9780415221740
• Zustand: Neuware