| Description |
xii, 214 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Global connections |
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Global connections (Ashgate (Firm))
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| Contents |
Introduction: neoliberal globalization and third world women: exploitation, coping, and resistance / Ligaya Lindio-McGovern and Isidor Wallimann -- Globalization and regional inequalities: regional divisions of reproductive labor: Southern African migrant domestic workers in Johannesburg / Shireen Ally -- Global capitalism and women: from feminist politics to working class women's politics / Martha Gimenez -- Migration, transnational politics, and the state: challenging the limits of the law: Filipino migrant workers'' transnational struggles in the world for protection and social justice / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez -- Identities, nation, and imperialism: confronting empire in Filipina American feminist thought / Anne E. Lacsamana -- The struggle for land and food sovereignty: feminism in the Mau Mau resurgence / Leigh Brownhill and Terisa E. Turner -- Alternative economies: Mexican women left behind: organizing solidarity economy in response / Ann Ferguson -- Towards a global economy of commoning: A "gift to humanity": third world women's global action to keep oil in the ground / Terisa E. Turner and Leigh Brownhill -- Neo-liberalism in women in development discourse: using ICTs for gender and development in Africa: the case of UNIFEM / Christobel Asiedu -- Globalization and women's empowerment in Africa / Robert Dibie -- Globalization and the sexual commodification of women: sex trafficking migration in South Asia / Bandana Purkayastha and Shweta Majumbar. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions.
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Globalization -- Developing countries.
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| Added Author |
Lindio-McGovern, Ligaya.
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Wallimann, Isidor, 1944-
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| ISBN |
9780754674634 alkaline paper |
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0754674630 alkaline paper |
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