Women, Globalization and Fragmentation in the Developing World
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Women, Globalization and Fragmentation in the Developing World
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The process of globalization has had a dramatic impact on the lives of women in developing countries in the past decade. They have been increasingly drawn into insecure flexible employment working for the world market. The feminisation of the labour market has increased the burdens on women, and the inability of men to access full-time well-remunerated employment has exacerbated the process of male out-migration and has left many families headed by women. At the same time the reduction in state services and welfare has increased the burdens placed on women. Nevertheless the consequences of globalization have been different for different women in different places. In some circumstances it has created opportunities for greater empowerment, whilst in others it has stimulated a reaction and increased the subordination of women. This book explores the experiences of women in diverse local contexts within different cultures and faiths, drawing on case studies from Asia, Africa and Latin America. It draws out the contradictory and fragmented impact of globalization at the local level on the lives of women in the developing world.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Women, Globalization and Fragmentation
- 2 Fractioned States and Negotiated Boundaries: Gender and Law in India
- 3 Right-wing Mobilization of Women in India: Hindutva's Willing Performers
- 4 The Impact of Global and the Reconstruction of Local Islamic Ideology, and an Assessment of its Role in Shaping Feminist Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran
- 5 The Informal Sector and the Conservative Consensus: a Case of Fragmentation in Egypt
- 6 Women-headed Households: Global Orthodoxies and Grassroots Realities
- 7 Women, Industrialization and the Environment in Indonesia
- 8 Gender and the Global Food Chain: a Comparative Study of Chile and the UK
- 9 Women's Work in Changing Labour Markets: the Case of Thailand in the 1980s
- 10 Health Education for Women as a Liberatory Process? An Example from Tajikistan
- 11 Why Rural Technologies Fail to Meet the Needs of Nigerian Women: Evidence from Hausa Women's Groups in Kano State
- Index