Gendering Globalization on the Ground: The Limits of Feminized Work for Mexican Women's Empowerment

by Gay Young

How has globalization worked for women working on the frontlines of neoliberalism on the Mexico-US border? This border divides US from Others, and produces social inequalities that form a site where marginalized border women encounter the othering power of neoliberalism and confront inequalities of gender and class. Within this context, a critical comparison of socially similar women, working either in export production industries or in small-scale...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138809829
• ISBN13: 9781138809826
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"