Gender and global restructuring : sightings, sites, and resistances / edited by Marianne H. Marchand and Anne Sisson Runyan.

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TextSeries: RIPE series in global political economy ; 30Publication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York : Routledge, c2011.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxx, 289 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780415776806

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LOC classification:

HQ 1162 .G46 2011

Contents:

Globalization and its intimate other: Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong / Kimberly A. Chang, L.H.M. Ling -- Querying globalization: sexual subjectivities, development, and the governance of intimacy / Amy Lind -- Governing gender in neoliberal restructuring: economics, performativity, and social reproduction / Suzanne Bergeron -- "Where the streets have no name": getting development out of the (RED)TM? / Michelle V. Rowley -- Global restructuring and women's economic citizenship in North Africa / Valentine M. Moghadam -- Remittances, gender, and development / Jonathan Bach -- Women's work unbound: Philippine development and global restructuring / Pauline Gardiner Barber -- The "making women productive" strategy: uncovering gendered sightings, sites, and resistances to global restructuring in rural Mexico / Rahel Kunz -- Globalization and gender at border sites: femicide and domestic violence in Ciudad Juarez / Kathleen Staudt -- Reclaiming spaces of resistance: women's human rights and global restructuring / Laura Parisi -- Globalization, feminism, and information society / Gillian Youngs.

Summary: ""A new edition from Marchand and Runyan is cause for celebration. They and their smart contributors show us here so graphically that the surprising twists and turns of today's globalizing trends cannot be realistically tracked without taking women's working lives and political resistances seriously." Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War. Emma's War. Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Open Shelf	Albukhary International University LEVEL 2	HQ 1161 .G46 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	1100006328

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Globalization and its intimate other: Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong / Kimberly A. Chang, L.H.M. Ling --
Querying globalization: sexual subjectivities, development, and the governance of intimacy / Amy Lind --
Governing gender in neoliberal restructuring: economics, performativity, and social reproduction / Suzanne Bergeron --
"Where the streets have no name": getting development out of the (RED)TM? / Michelle V. Rowley --
Global restructuring and women's economic citizenship in North Africa / Valentine M. Moghadam --
Remittances, gender, and development / Jonathan Bach --
Women's work unbound: Philippine development and global restructuring / Pauline Gardiner Barber --
The "making women productive" strategy: uncovering gendered sightings, sites, and resistances to global restructuring in rural Mexico / Rahel Kunz --
Globalization and gender at border sites: femicide and domestic violence in Ciudad Juarez / Kathleen Staudt --
Reclaiming spaces of resistance: women's human rights and global restructuring / Laura Parisi --
Globalization, feminism, and information society / Gillian Youngs.

""A new edition from Marchand and Runyan is cause for celebration. They and their smart contributors show us here so graphically that the surprising twists and turns of today's globalizing trends cannot be realistically tracked without taking women's working lives and political resistances seriously." Cynthia Enloe, author of Nimo's War. Emma's War. Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War.

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