Gender Transitions Along Borders: The Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco

ISBN-13: 9780367221430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 206 str.

Marlene Solis

Opis

This book contributes to the understanding of current changes in the workplace, in family, in sexuality and sexual violence within the setting of the borderlands.

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction: a feminist view of borders, Marlene Solís. Part I Gender and Borders: Theoretical Aspects: Global borders: a gender interpretation, Natalia Ribas-Mateos; Work, family, and gender relations on the northern border of Mexico, Silvia López Estrada. Part II Work and Family in Global Companies: Women’s work in northern Morocco: emancipation or exploitation?, Nadia Naïr and Zohra El-Khamlichi; The symbolic place of female workers in the borderland export industry: the case of Morocco, Rosa Ma. Soriano Miras, Antonio Trinidad, Kathryn Kopinak and Jenna Hennebry; A comparison of family cultures among migrants with work experience in export processing industries in Mexico and Morocco, Kathryn Kopinak, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Rosa María Soriano Miras, Antonio Trinidad and Jenna Hennebry. Part III Sexuality and Sexual Violence: Young women in Tijuana and growing cohabitation rates, Norma Ojeda de la Peña; Being a homosexual woman in the borderlands: stories told by couples living in Matamoros, Oscar Misael Hernández-Hernández; The bodies of the trafficked, Helena Maleno. Part IV Women’s Resistance and Collective Action: Associations, gender, and feminism in Tangier: a reflection on the current conditions of political change taking place in the Arab world, Mercedes Jiménez Álvarez; The factor X experience: women with a dark soul, Marlene Solís; Epilogue, Marianne Marchand. References; Interviews; Index.

O autorze

Marlene Solís is currently a Researcher and Professor in the Department of Social Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF). She holds a PhD in social sciences with a specialty in regional studies from COLEF, and a Master’s in urban development from El Colegio de México (Mexico College).