The Gender Question in Globalization: Changing Perspectives And Practices (Gender in a Global/Local World) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754639231 ISBN 13: 9780754639237

Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co, 2005

Synopsis

It is frequently assumed that globalization has the same features and impact everywhere on this globe, such as the feminization of poverty. Labour and even peace. These ideas circulate in official documents and scientific writings, where they settle practically as truths and become global orthodoxies. this book is about deconstructing those orthodoxies. Moreover, it goes beyond dichotomous thinking of the global and the local, the modern and the traditional and women and men as opposite entities, and focuses on the global/local entanglement.

About this title

About the Author

Tine Davids is a Lecturer and Francien van Driel is an Associate Professor both in the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN), Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands.

Review

'Using a "gender lens" to explore the ramifications of globalization for women and men in different parts of the world, the editors and contributors of The Gender Question in Globalization have produced a fascinating and timely analysis of gender's central place in the intersection between global and local processes...This book should be a "must read" not only for dedicated scholars of Gender, but for any Social Scientist with an interest in globalization.' Sylvia Chant, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 'This unique volume makes complex dynamics of gender and globalization comprehensible. It provides a refreshing and rich analysis of local realities in the local/global nexus. Focusing on gendered agency in heterogeneous spaces and spheres of life across the globe, contributors build a multidimensional picture of globalization. Recommendable reading for everyone who wants to move beyond the paradigm of globalization as linear and top down.' Philomena Essed, Antioch University, USA '...excellent...a valuable contribution to the field...fun to read and throws up all sorts of interesting new questions...' Political Studies Review 'The major strength of this book is that it fills and important gap in the discussion of globalization and gender and provides a new narrative for the interactions between them. The case studies used in this book are very diverse and very clearly support the main argument of the book... This book is an important read for anyone interested in the relationship between gender and globalization. Beyond its focus on gender, the book also helps deconstruct notions of the power relations between the global and the local... Overall this book provides a new and compelling argument about gender, globalization, and development.' Gendered Perspectives on International Development Resource Bulletin

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754639231
• ISBN 13: 9780754639237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 234
• Editor: Davids Tine, Driel Francien Van