Gender, Law and Justice in a Global Market (Law in Context) - Hardcover

Stewart, Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521763118 ISBN 13: 9780521763110

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Theories of gender justice in the twenty-first century must engage with global economic and social processes. Using concepts from economic analysis associated with global commodity chains and feminist ethics of care, Ann Stewart considers the way in which 'gender contracts' relating to work and care contribute to gender inequalities worldwide. She explores how economies in the global north stimulate desires and create deficits in care and belonging which are met through transnational movements and traces the way in which transnational economic processes, discourses of rights and care create relationships between global south and north. African women produce fruit and flowers for European consumption; body workers migrate to meet deficits in 'affect' through provision of care and sex; British-Asian families seek belonging through transnational marriages.

About this title

Book Description:

This fresh understanding of global law and contemporary gender relations asks 'whom do we care about?' not 'what rights do women have?'. Case studies feature African women producing fruit and flowers for UK export; Polish, Filipino and Moldovan migrant body workers providing care and sex; and British-Asian transnational marriages.

About the Author:

Ann Stewart is a Reader in Law and Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of Warwick, where she specialises in the area of gender and the law, particularly in the context of international development.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521763118
• ISBN 13: 9780521763110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376