Gender & globalization
Subtitle: patterns of women's resistance
By: edited by Erica G. Polakoff and Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
Publisher: de Sitter Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Whitby, ON, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781897160343
Subjects: Women; Political activity; Women's rights; Globalization
Other titles: Gender and globalization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Women's resistance to the violence of global capitalist penetration / Erica G. Polakoff; title: Neoliberal globalization in the Philippines : its impact on Filipino women and their forms of resistance / Ligaya Lindio-McGovern; title: We're better off outside our country : diasporic Ecuadorian women in Spain since the 1990s / estheR Cuesta; title: Push and pull factors in female labour migration : evidence from Sri Lanka's garment workers / Judith Shaw; title: Historical consciousness and collective action : finding women's resistance where north meets south / Mary E. Frederickson; title: Waves of resistance in the Colombian flower industry / Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama; title: Free trade, alternative trade and women in Peru : a first look / Jane Henrici; title: Women's rights and collective resistance : the success story of marketplace India / Margaret A. McLaren; title: Urban poverty reborn : a gender and generational analysis / Jeanine Anderson; title: Challenging traditional female roles through social participation : tensions in women's experiences in Argentina's picketing movements / Ada Freytes Frey and Karina Crivelli; title: The feminization of poverty in post-apartheid South Africa : a story told by the women of Bayview, Chatsworth / Saranel Benjamin-Lemert; title: Global capitalist penetration, child labor and children's collective resistance in defense of their rights / Erica G. Polakoff; title: Women and neoliberal globalization : inequities, resistance and alternatives / Ligaya Lindio-McGovern.