Women reinventing globalisation
By: edited by Joanna Kerr and Caroline Sweetman.
Contributors: Sweetman, Caroline.; Kerr, Joanna, 1967-
Series: Oxfam focus on gender
Publisher: Oxfam
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Women in development.; Globalization -- Social aspects.; Sex role -- Developing countries.; Women's rights.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of contents: title: Editorial / -- Joanna Kerr, -- Caroline Sweetman -- I. THE ECONOMICS OF GLOBALISATION; title: Gender budgets and beyond: feminist fiscal policy in the context of globalisation -- Nilüfer Çağatay; title: Feminist responses to economic globalisation: some examples of past and future practice -- Ruth Pearson; title: Counting for something! Recognising women's contribution to the global economy through alternative accounting systems -- Marilyn Waring; title: African women challenging neo-liberal economic orthodoxy: the conception and mission of the GERA programme -- Zo Randriamaro; title: In search of an alternative development paradigm: feminist proposals from Latin America -- Members of the Feminist Initiative of Cartagena; title: If I were Minister of Finance...: gaining understanding of financial crisis through a simulation workshop -- Mehrene Larudee, -- Caren Grown -- II. GLOBALISATION AS POLITICS; title: Fundamentalisms, globalisation, and women's human rights in Senegal -- Fatou Sow; title: A daring proposal: campaigning for an inter-American convention on sexual rights and reproductive rights -- Valéria Pandjiarjian; title: Free markets and state control: a feminist challenge to Davos man and Big Brother -- Mona Danner, -- Gay Young; title: Using the master's tools: feminism, media and ending violence against women -- Sanya Sarnàvka -- III. SPECIFIC ISSUES OF GLOBAL CONCERN; title: Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millenium development goals -- Lynn Freedman; title: HIV/AIDS, globalisation and the international women's movement -- Sisonke Msimang; title: New genetic technologies and their impact on women: a feminist perspective -- Lisa Handwerker; title: Trafficking and women's human rights in a globalised world -- Pamela Shifman -- IV. BUILDING A GLOBAL VOICE TO PROTECT WOMEN'S RIGHTS; title: The women's movement in the era of globalisation: does it face extinction? -- Andrea Medina Rosas, -- Shamillah Wilson; title: Institutions, organisations and gender equality in an era of globalisation -- Aruna Rao, -- David Kelleher.