The Gender Question in Globalization

Changing Perspectives and Practices

Francien van Driel, Tine Davids

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9780754673224
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351889001
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Arms Control
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Index

agency 8, 12, 16-18, 27, 37, 55, 80, 82, 87, 96, 106, 110, 123, 179-81, 186, 219-22, 226

human 26-7, 29, 32-4, 37, 47, 100, 129, 134, 136, 152, 207, 209

agent of change 5, 17, 33-5, 37, 219, 221

analytical gender model 4, 8, 12, 15

body 5, 18, 44, 55, 78, 81, 87, 95, 133, 162, 165

bodies 18, 49, 55, 77-8, 82, 85, 94, 98, 132, 134, 150, 223

caste 143, 145, 148, 150, 152-3, 156

citizens 12-13, 47, 49, 78, 95, 164, 173

citizenship 168, 172, 182

civil society 94-5, 101, 103, 107

class 6, 8, 11, 28, 46, 79, 120, 143, 154, 156, 161-7, 173, 200, 227

colonial time 20, 112, 161-8, 170-74, 192

pre-colonial time 225

commodities 9-10, 146

conflict 10, 15, 18, 35-6, 93-9, 101, 103, 105-6, 110, 203,217

creolization 10, 19-20, 144, 147, 149, 152, 156-7, 166, 228

cultural imperialism 18, 79, 88, 223-4

deconstructing 6, 8, 12-13, 20, 81, 191, 227

deconstructed 11, 14, 19, 81, 141, 224

deconstruction 4, 18, 60, 122...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Series Editors’ Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• INTRODUCTION
• LOCAL LIVED REALITIES: AGENCY INSTEAD OF VICTIMIZATION
• UNEXPECTED OUTCOMES: GLOBALIZATION AND THE PRODUCTION OF DIFFERENCE
• GLOCALIZED GENDER IDENTITIES: TRADITION AND MODERNITY DECONSTRUCTED
• CONCLUSION
• Index