Gender and Global Restructuring
Sightings, Sites and Resistances
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-77680-6
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 15th February 2010 (Available for Pre-order)
- Pages: 272
About the Book
In a post 9/11 world the processes of globalization have become focussed on issues of security and empire, which has rendered the ongoing economic restructuring under heightened forms of state and supra-state surveillance invisible. This book seeks to explore the contribution that can be made by feminist scholarship to these debates of globalization and empire.
This new edition and provides a coherent and challenging introduction to the issues of gender and the processes of globalization followed by a series of empirical studies from Europe, Latin America, US, Asia the Middle East. It does not conceive of global restructuring as an economic process on its own and sees gender as multi-dimensional, operating ideologically, at the level of social relations, and through the social construction of male and female bodies and feminine/masculine identities.
The book features an entirely new introduction and six new chapters, and four revised and fully updated chapters to ensure the book discusses the most relevant, contemporary debates and issues. It is structured in the same format as the first edition, divided into Sightings, Sites and Resistances and examines:
- The politics of race and sexuality and the latest manipulations of tradition and modernity under securitized globalization, including case studies on domestic workers in Hong Kong and women’s roles in neoliberal development in Latin America.
- Migration, human rights and citizenship, including studies on rural Mexican women, Filipino migrant workers and women in Iraq,
- Feminist resistance, incorporating the latest scholarship on transnational feminism and feminist anti-globalization activism, including case studies on the Mexico/US border, gender and development, and the UN and World Bank policies and labor and unpaid caring work.
This important text provides a truly global analysis of women and globalization and will be of interest to students and scholars of IPE, international relations, economics, development and gender studies
Reviews
Praise for first edition:
'This exciting collection fills an urgent need. Theorists of International Political Economy (IPE) typically neglect gender, and feminists too often neglect the Global Political Economy. In contrast, this major work brings the cutting edges of IPE and feminist scholarship into productive relation, affording not only thoughtful and thought-provoking case studies but also fresh analytical insights and conceptual breakthroughs. It demands the attention of IR theorists, political economists, feminists and all who seek to understand global restructuring and possibilities for social justice.'
Professor V. Spike Peterson, University of Arizona, USA
'This is a groundbreaking edited volume in its efforts to reveal the complex multidimensional linkages between everyday lives and transformations in subjectivities, markets, societies and states.'
Christine B.N Chin, Assistant Professor of International Relations, American University, Washington
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Feminist Re-Sightings of Gender and Global Restructuring: Conceptualizations and Reconceptualizations Marianne H. Marchand and Anne Sisson Runyan Part I: Sightings 2. Globalization and its Intimate Other: Filipina Domestic Workers in Hong Kong Kimberly A. Chang and L.H.M. Ling 3. Querying Globalization: Sexual Subjectivities, Development and the Governance of Intimacy Amy Lind 4. Multiculturalism and Globalization: Feminist Perspectives Gillian Youngs Part II: Sites 5. Beyond a Reductionist Analysis of Gendered Global Migrations: Incorporating Deskilling and the Skilled Eleonore Kofman 6. Uncovering sites of global restructuring: The case of rural Mexican women Rahel Kunz 7. Women's Work Unbound: Re-siting Philippine Development Scenarios in Global Restructuring Pauline Gardiner Barber 8. Human Security, Human Rights, and Citizenships: What Prospects for Women in Iraq? Valentine M. Moghadam Part III: Resistances 9. Globalization and Gender at Border Sites Kathleen Staudt 10. Remittances, Gender, and Development Jonathan Bach 11. Resisting the New Celebrity Face of Development Michelle Rowley 12. Restructuring Gender and Caring Labor: A Feminist Reconceptualization of Gender and Development Discourse Suzanne Bergeron 13. Conclusion: Gender at the Crossroads of Globalization and Empire Anne Sisson Runyan and Marianne Marchand
About the Author(s)
Marianne H. Marchand is Professor of International Relations in the Department of International Relations and History and the director of its doctoral program at the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico.
Anne Sisson Runyan is Professor of Women’s Studies and Head and Graduate Director of the Department of Women’s Studies at the University of Cincinnati, USA