Globalization and the third world women/
Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
- England: Ashgate, 2009.
- 214 p.
1. Introduction : neoliberal globalization and 3rd world women: exploitation, coping, and resistance / Ligaya Lindio-McGovern and Isidor Wallimann -- 2. Globalization and regional inequalities : regional divisions of reproductive labor: Southern African migrant domestic workers in Johannesburg / Shireen Ally -- 3. Global capitalism and women : from feminist politics to working class women's politics / Martha Gimenez -- 4. Migration, transnational politics, and the state : challenging the limits of the law : Filipino migrant workers'' transnational struggles in the world for protection and social justice / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez -- 5. Identities, nation, and imperialism : confronting empire in Filipina American feminist thought / Anne E. Lacsamana -- 6. The struggle for land and food sovereignty : feminism in the Mau Mau resurgence / Leigh Brownhill and Terisa E. Turner -- 7. Alternative economies: Mexican women left behind : organizing solidarity economy in response / Ann Ferguson -- 8. Towards a global economy of commoning : a "gift to humanity": 3rd world women's global action to keep oil in the ground / Terisa E. Turner and Leigh Brownhill -- 9. Neo-liberalism in women in development discourse : using ICTs for gender and development in Africa: the case of UNIFEM / Christobel Asiedu -- 10. Globalization and women's empowerment in Africa / Robert Dibie -- 11. Globalization and the sexual commodification of women : sex trafficking migration in South Asia / Bandana Purkayastha and Shweta Majumbar. Series Title: Global connections (Ashgate (Firm))
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Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions Women -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions Globalization -- Developing countries