ABSTRACT
Orthodox views of globalization assume that it has the same features and impact everywhere, i.e. the feminization of poverty, labour and even peace. As these ideas circulate in official documents and scientific writings, they settle practically as truths. This challenging and unique book is amongst the first to deconstruct these orthodoxies, using a multi-layered gender analysis where globalization is not treated as a linear and top-down process with a known outcome and a pre-conceived definition of gender. Instead, the authors scrutinize the dynamics of each context on its own merits, including the agency of women and men, resulting in unexpected and groundbreaking insights into the variety of differences apparent, even in sometimes seemingly similar global processes. Through this gender lens, different and new meanings of gender appear, rooted in multiple modernities. The book will be a seminal contribution to debates in the fields of international labour, sexuality, identity, feminism, peace studies and migration.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |22 pages
Introduction
part |51 pages
Local Lived Realities: Agency Instead of Victimization
part |65 pages
Unexpected Outcomes: Globalization and the Production of Difference
chapter Chapter 5|16 pages
The Global Localization of Feminist Knowledge: Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves 1
chapter Chapter 6|16 pages
Global Peace Builders and Local Conflict: The Feminization of Peace in Southern Sudan
chapter Chapter 7|16 pages
Gendered Travels: Single Mother's Experiences at the Global/Local Interface
chapter Chapter 8|15 pages
Reproductive Rights Violations: A Comparison of Export-Oriented Industries in Mexico and Morocco
part |73 pages
Glocalized Gender Identities: Tradition and Modernity Deconstructed
chapter Chapter 12|17 pages
Layered Meanings of Community: Experiences of Iranian Women Exiles in 'Irangeles'
part |14 pages
Conclusion