The wages of empire
Subtitle: neoliberal policies, repression, and women's poverty
By: edited by Amalia L. Cabezas, Ellen Reese, and Marguerite Waller
Contributors: Cabezas, Amalia L; Reese, Ellen, 1969-; Waller, Marguerite R., 1948-
Series: Transnational feminist studies
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781594513473
Subjects: Women -- Economic conditions -- Cross-cultural studies; Women -- Economic conditions -- Developing countries; Sex discrimination against women -- Cross-cultural studies; Globalization -- Economic aspects; International trade -- Economic aspects
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-233) and index
Table of contents: title: The policies and ideologies of neoliberal globalization; title: Introduction; title: Poverty and the vicious cycle of AIDS / Bernardo Useche and Amalia Cabezas; title: In her name: the politics of global poverty management / Ananya Roy; title: "Haute culture" for mail order missionaries: representing the third world; title: Woman in the American fashion magazine / Jennifer Lynn Stoever; title: Impacts of neo-liberal policy and ideology: case studies; title: Tea's fortunes and famines: global capital, women workers, and survival in Indian plantation country / Piya Chatterjee; title: Macro-economics and micro-entrepreneurs: comparing two island nations?; title: Responses to neo-liberalism and its impact on women's lives / Marina Karides; title: Politicians, think tanks, and the global promotion of the "Wisconsin model" of welfare reform / Ellen Reese; title: Service provisioning as political activity: struggles for citizenship in Britain's declining welfare state / Tracy Fisher; title: Laboring under corporate globalization: case studies; title: Neoliberalism, globalization, and the international division of care / Joya Misra and Sabine N. Merz; title: The tortilla behemoth: sexualized despotism and women's resistance in a transnational Mexican tortilla factory / Carolina Bank Mu?oz; title: Roses, thorns, and seven dollars a day: women workers in Colombia's export flower industry / Cynthia Mellon; title: The process of exporting neo-liberal development: the consequences of the growth of EPZs in El Salvador / Jill Esbenshade; title: War and military repression; title: Bacteria, bioterrorism, and the geranium ladies of Guatemala / Caitilyn Allen; title: "Globalization" under occupation: gender and poverty in Iraq and Palestine / Jennifer Olmsted; title: Amazons go to war without weapons: women and the conflict in Escravos Niger Delta / Joy Ngozi Ezeilo; title: Building empire on the backs of women: U.S. actions or the role of the United States in Afghanistan / Sonali Kolhatkar; title: Bibliography; title: About the contributors