The gender question in globalization : changing perspectives and practices

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Title:

Author:

Davids, Tine.

ISBN:

9780754639237

9780754673224

Publication Information:

Aldershot : Ashgate, c2005.

Physical Description:

xii, 234 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Gender in a global/local world.

Gender in a global/local world

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Machine derived contents note: INTRODUCTION -- 1 Changing Perspectives -- Tine Davids and Francien van Driel 3 -- LOCAL LIVED REALITIES: AGENCY INSTEAD OF VICTIMIZATION -- 2 The Gendered Reconstruction of the Argentine Auto Components -- Industry -- Lineke Stobbe 25 -- 3 Professionalization, Sexualization: When Global Meets Local in the -- Working Identities of Secretaries in Lima, Peru -- Lorraine Nencel 41 -- 4 Being a Man: Young Masculinities and Safe Sex in Dakar -- Anouka van Eerdewijk 59 -- UNEXPECTED OUTCOMES: GLOBALIZATION AND THE -- PRODUCTION OF DIFFERENCE -- 5 The Global Localization of Feminist Knowledge: -- Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves -- Kathy Davis 77 -- 6 Global Peace Builders and Local Conflict: The Feminization of Peace in -- Southern Sudan -- Dorothea Hilhorst and Mathis van Leeuwen 93 -- 7 Gendered Travels: Single Mothers' Experiences at the Global/Local -- Interface -- Annelou Ypeij 109 -- The Gender Question in Globalization -- 8 Reproductive Rights Violations: A Comparison of Export-Oriented -- Industries in Mexico and Morocco -- Fenneke Reysoo 125 -- GLOCALIZED GENDER IDENTITIES: TRADITION AND MODERNITY -- DECONSTRUCTED -- 9 Dowry in India: Respected Tradition and Modem Monstrosity -- Marion den Uyl 143 -- 10 On Globalization, Gender and the Nation-State: Muslim Masculinity -- and the Urban Middle-Class Family in Islamist Sudan -- Karin Willemse 159 -- 11 Political Representation and the Ambiguity of Mexican Motherhood -- Tine Davids 179 -- 12 Layered Meanings of Community: Experiences of Iranian Women -- Exiles in 'Irangeles' -- Halleh Ghorashi 197 -- CONCLUSION -- 13 Gender and Globalization: An Analytical Alliance -- Tine Davids and Francien van Driel 217.

Abstract:

"It is frequently assumed that globalization has the same features and impact everywhere on this globe, such as the feminization of poverty. Labour and even peace. These ideas circulate in official documents and scientific writings, where they settle practically as truths and become global orthodoxies. this book is about deconstructing those orthodoxies. Moreover, it goes beyond dichotomous thinking of the global and the local, the modern and the traditional and women and men as opposite entities, and focuses on the global/local entanglement."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Women -- Social conditions.

Globalization -- Social aspects.

Feminist theory.

Culture and globalization.

Added Author:

Davids, Tine.

Driel, Francien Th. M. van, 1953-

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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.