Women, Globalization and Fragmentation in the Developing World

ISBN-13: 9780312216597 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 230 str.

Haleh Afshar; Stephanie Barrientos

Opis

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. 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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Women, Globalisation and Fragmentation; H. Afshar and S. Barrientos Fractioned States and Negotiated Boundaries: Gender and Law in India; S. Rai Right-Wing Mobilisation of Women in India: Hindutva's Willing Performers; J. Phalkey The Impact of Global and the Reconstruction of Local - Islamic Ideology and Assessment of its Role in Shaping Feminist Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran; H. Afshar The Informal Sector and the Conservative Consensus: A Case of Fragmentation in Egypt; N. El-Mikawy Women-Headed Households: Global Orthodoxies and Grassroots Realities; S. Chant Women, Industrialisation and Environment in Indonesia; I. Smyth Gender and the Global Food Chain: A Comparative Study of Chile and the UK; S. Barrientos and D. Perrons Women's Work in Changing Labour Markets: The Case of Thailand in the 1980s; R. Kurian Health Education for Women as a Liberatory Process? An Example From Tajikstan; C. Harris Why Rural Technologies Fail to Meet the Needs of Nigerian Women: Evidence From a Hausa Women's Group in Kano State; S. Tarfa

O autorze

SYLVIA CHANT Reader in Geography, London School of Economics NOHA EL-MIKAWY Research Fellow, University of Er-langen COLETTE HARRIS currently working on her PhD, Institute of Development Research, Amsterdam University RACHEL KURIAN Senior Lecturer in International Labour Economics, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague JAHNAVI PHALKEY Research Fellow, Asiatic Society, Bombay DIANE PERRONS Lecturer in Geography, London School of Economics SHIRIN RAI Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Warwick INES SMYTH has a PhD in Social Anthropology, University College London SINTIKI TARFA Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology