Gender, Globalization, and Democratization

Women's voices and experiences from around the world are brought to bear upon issues of globalization and democratization in this volume of strikingly original and diverse essays. From the Comfort Women of Japan to the Mexican maquiladoras, from the debt burdened nations of Africa to the 'new settler societies' of Oceania, the impact of globalizing forces and uneven democratization yields gender dislocations everywhere. This volume charts these trends with original research, first-hand interviews and surveys, and fresh theoretical perspectives. Gender regime change may be built on the understandings begun here.

Rita Mae Kelly was dean of the Social Sciences at the University of Texas, Dallas, at Richardson, and author of many books including Advances in Policy Studies Since 1950 and The Gendered Economy. Jane H. Bayes is professor of political science at the California State University in Northridge. Mary E. Hawkesworth is professor of political science and director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. Brigitte Young is professor of political economy at Freie Universitat in Berlin, Germany.