The Gender of Globalization Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities Gunewardena Nandini

  • Kingsolver Ann
  • James Currey
  • Year of publishing: 2007
  • Place of publishing: Oxford
  • ISBN: 9781847012036
  • Language: English
  • Series: 1st
  • Edition: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Seri

S tím, jak se z tolik opakovaného slova „globalizace“ postupně stává klišé, zhodnocení toho, co neoliberální kapitalismus přinesl ženám, nabývá na naléhavosti. Autoři této publikace zkoumají za pomoci feministické a etnografické metodologie, jaký dopad na ženy v Argentině, na Srí Lance, v Mexiku, Ghaně, USA, Indii, na Jamaice i na řadě dalších míst mají přípravné zóny na export, volný obchod, ekonomická liberalizace nebo měnová reforma. Tyto postupy jsou často velebeny jako nositelé prosperity a osvobození. V mnoha případech však vedou spíše k dalšímu podřízení žen a znásobení zátěže, kterou implikuje rasa, kasta, společenská třída a pohlaví. Obchodnice, pracovnice v oděvních továrnách, pokojské v hotelech, sběratelky odpadu, ženy pečující o domácnost, dcery, matky: ženy po celém světě bojují proti tomu, aby byly odsunuty ještě dále na okraj, jak k tomu někdy přispívá globalizace.

As "globalization" moves rapidly from buzzword to cliche, evaluating the claims of neoliberal capitalism to empower and enrich remains urgently important. The authors in this volume employ feminist, ethnographic methods to examine what free trade and export processing zones, economic liberalization, and currency reform mean to women in Argentina, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Ghana, the United States, India, Jamaica, and many other places. Heralded as agents of prosperity and liberation, neoliberal economic policies have all too often refigured and redoubled the burdens of gender, race, caste, class, and regional subordination that women bear. Traders, garment factory operatives, hotel managers and maids, small farmers and agricultural laborers, garbage pickers, domestic caregivers, daughters, wives, and mothers: Women around the world are struggling to challenge the tendency of globalization talk to veil their marginalization.

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