Navigating the Margins: Gender, Women's Work, & Politics in a Globalizing World

by William L. Conwill, Sandy Smith-Nonini, Annapurna Pandey, et al.

Book Overview

As globalization moves rapidly from buzzword to clich , evaluating the claims of neoliberal capitalism to empower and enrich remains urgently important. The authors in this volume employ feminist, ethnographic methods to examine what free trade and export processing zones, economic liberalization, and currency reform mean to women in Argentina, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Ghana, the United States, India, Jamaica, and many other places. Heralded as agents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930618913
• ISBN13: 9781930618916
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"