Title: Women and globalization /
Authors: Aguilar, Delia D.; Lacsamana, Anne E.
Publisher: Humanity Books,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Women in development.; Women Social conditions.; Women Economic conditions.; Globalization Social aspects
Abstract: Delia D. Aguilar and Anne E. Lacsamana have assembled a collection of articles showing the various ways in which the neoliberal agenda of globalization has drawn women into productive labor and in the process radically reshaped their lives in the reproductive sphere. Implemented primarily through the structural adjustment programs required by international financial agencies, neoliberalism has intensified women's exploitation on the assembly line and spawned an unprecedented diaspora of women as mail-order brides, domestic helpers, and workers in the sex trade. Many of the essays describe the appalling conditions that characterize these work sites. Not less important, they underscore the vitality of grassroots organizations where women collectively wage battles for better work lives and envision a system more humane than what currently exists.
Contents: Globalization and its impact on women workers in Malaysia / Rohana Ariffin -- Th context of gender and globalization in the Philippines / Elizabeth Uy Eviota -- The restructuring and privatization of women's industries in Nicaragua / Nancy Wiegersma -- Six years of NAFTA:" a view from inside the Maquiladoras / Border Committee of Women Workers, with a foreword by Rachael Kamel -- Maquiladoras, migration and daily life: women and work in the contemporary Mexican political economy / Nancy Churchill -- Haitian women in the new world order / April Ane Knutson -- Internationalization of capital and the trade in Asian women : the case of "foreign brides " in Taiwan / Hsiao Chuan Hsia -- Globalization in living color: women of color living under and over the "new world order" / Grace Change -- Who needs Yehudi Menuhin? Costs and impact of migration / Bridget Anderson -- South African women : narratives of struggle and exile / Thelma Ravell-Pinto -- The cultural debate over female circumcision: The Sudanese are arguing this one out for themselves / Ellen Gurenbaum -- Gender, race, militarization, and economic restructuring in the former Yugoslavia and at the U.S.-Mexico border / Anna M. Agathangelou -- Sex worker or prostituted woman? An examination of the sex work debates in western feminist theory / Anne E. Lacsamana -- Questionable claims : colonialism redux, feminist style / Delia D. Aguilar.