ABSTRACT
The mainstream theories of globalization have paid little attention to gender. Globalization, however, has very different effects upon men and women, as this and subsequent chapters will show. Feminist1 critiques of global restructuring therefore fill important gaps in the mainstream literature on globalization. Evidently, women are not a homogenous group. As many of the theorists cited in this chapter have pointed out, the impact of globalization on individual women is mediated by social and cultural factors, such as their ‘race’, class, education and/or national citizenship. This book is a case study of the gendered impact of the processes of globalization in one national context.
