Gender & globalization : patterns of women's resistance / edited by Erica G. Polakoff and Ligaya Lindio-McGovern

Additional Titles: Gender and globalization
Published: Whitby, ON, Canada : De Sitter Publications, [2011]
Copyright Date: ©2011
Physical Description: xii, 362 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Creators: Polakoff, Erica and Lindio-McGovern, Ligaya

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Contents

Women's resistance to the violence of global capitalist penetration / Erica G. Polakoff -- Neoliberal globalization in the Philippines : its impact on Filipino women and their forms of resistance / Ligaya Lindio-McGovern -- We're better off outside our country : diasporic Ecuadorian women in Spain since the 1990s / estheR Cuesta -- Push and pull factors in female labour migration : evidence from Sri Lanka's garment workers / Judith Shaw -- Historical consciousness and collective action : finding women's resistance where north meets south / Mary E. Frederickson -- Waves of resistance in the Colombian flower industry / Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama -- Free trade, alternative trade and women in Peru : a first look / Jane Henrici -- Women's rights and collective resistance : the success story of marketplace India / Margaret A. McLaren -- Urban poverty reborn : a gender and generational analysis / Jeanine Anderson -- Challenging traditional female roles through social participation : tensions in women's experiences in Argentina's picketing movements / Ada Freytes Frey and Karina Crivelli -- The feminization of poverty in post-apartheid South Africa : a story told by the women of Bayview, Chatsworth / Saranel Benjamin-Lemert -- Global capitalist penetration, child labor and children's collective resistance in defense of their rights / Erica G. Polakoff -- Women and neoliberal globalization : inequities, resistance and alternatives / Ligaya Lindio-McGovern.

Summary

Neoliberal globalization has a detrimental impact on most women and their families in the global South or Third World. The authors reveal that not only does globalization exacerbate their already subordinate position in the global political economy, but also that women are fighting back. They have devised various ways to resist the negative consequences of neoliberal policies and corporate globalization on their everyday lives and on their nation states. Their politics of resistance offers strategies, insights and practical ideas about how a better, more just world can be achieved. This book pays particular attention to the contradictions of neoliberal globalization and how these contradictions create resistance to it as well as the search for equitable and empowering alternatives. --Book Jacket.

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ISBN

9781897160343 (pbk.)
1897160348 (pbk.)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Source of Acquisition

UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2010.

Endowment Note

Paterno Libraries Endowment

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