The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930618913 ISBN 13: 9781930618916

Publisher: SAR Press, 2008

Synopsis

As globalization moves rapidly from buzzword to cliché, evaluating the claims of neoliberal capitalism to empower and enrich remains urgently important. The authors in this volume employ feminist, ethnographic methods to examine what free trade and export processing zones, economic liberalization, and currency reform mean to women in Argentina, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Ghana, the United States, India, Jamaica, and many other places.

About this title

About the Author

Kingsolver is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina.

Review

In addition to specialists, this book will be a useful resource for upper division undergraduates and beginning graduate students studying work, economic anthropology, gender, globalization, and class issues. One of the book's greatest strengths is that, as a collection, it addresses side by side the similarities between marginalized women in very different areas of the globe while never losing track of the particular differences that geography, class, caste, ethnicity, race, and even age can have on the ways in which women experience the problems and possibilities of globalization. --Alicia DeNicola, Anthropology of Work Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 3

"This volume, a welcome addition to humanitiesand social sciences libraries, helps bring ethnographic richness to other works of political economy and gender." "Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." "â ¦wonderful, timely addition to the literature on women and globalization, women in development, and gender and developmentâ ¦." --Choice, vol. 45, No, 11, August 2008

"In addition to specialists, this book will be a useful resource for upper division undergraduates and beginning graduate students studying work, economic anthropology, gender, globalization, and class issues." "One of the book's greatest strengths is that, as a collection, it addresses side by side the similarities between marginalized women in very different areas of the globe while never losing track of the particular differences that geography, class, caste, ethnicity, race, and even age can have on the ways in which women experience the problems and possibilities of globalization." --Alicia DeNicola, Anthropology of Work Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 3

"This volume, a welcome addition to humanitiesand social sciences libraries, helps bring ethnographic richness to other works of political economy and gender." "Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." "â ¦wonderful, timely addition to the literature on women and globalization, women in development, and gender and developmentâ ¦." --Choice, vol. 45, No, 11, August 2008

"In addition to specialists, this book will be a useful resource for upper division undergraduates and beginning graduate students studying work, economic anthropology, gender, globalization, and class issues." "One of the book's greatest strengths is that, as a collection, it addresses side by side the similarities between marginalized women in very different areas of the globe while never losing track of the particular differences that geography, class, caste, ethnicity, race, and even age can have on the ways in which women experience the problems and possibilities of globalization." --Alicia DeNicola, Anthropology of Work Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 3

"This volume, a welcome addition to humanitiesand social sciences libraries, helps bring ethnographic richness to other works of political economy and gender." "Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." "...wonderful, timely addition to the literature on women and globalization, women in development, and gender and development...." --Choice, vol. 45, No, 11, August 2008

"In addition to specialists, this book will be a useful resource for upper division undergraduates and beginning graduate students studying work, economic anthropology, gender, globalization, and class issues." "One of the book's greatest strengths is that, as a collection, it addresses side by side the similarities between marginalized women in very different areas of the globe while never losing track of the particular differences that geography, class, caste, ethnicity, race, and even age can have on the ways in which women experience the problems and possibilities of globalization." --Alicia DeNicola, Anthropology of Work Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 3

Edition details

• Publisher: SAR Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1930618913
• ISBN 13: 9781930618916
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Gunewardena Nandini, Kingsolver Ann