"This book is powerful because the writers accomplished what they wanted to do: to de-marginalize Third World women’s experience, voice, and politics, especially with regard to regional knowledge and its relationship to transnational understandings."—Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews
"An important empirical contribution to our nuanced understanding of the gendered effects of global economic change."—Gender and Development Journal
Description
Adopting the notion of “third world” as a political and geographical category, this volume analyzes marginalized women’s experiences of globalization. It unravels the intersections of race, culture, gender, ethnicity, nationality, and class that have shaped the position of these women in the global political economy, as well as their cultural and national histories. In addition to a thematically structured and highly informative investigation, the authors explore policy implications, which are commonly neglected in mainstream literature. The result is an invaluable volume for scholars in the fields of sociology and women’s studies, social policy experts, and professionals working within nongovernmental organizations.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Neoliberal Globalization and Third World Women: Exploitation,
Coping and Resistance, Ligaya Lindio-McGovern and Isidor Wallimann
Globalization and Regional Inequalities
Regional Divisions of Reproductive Labor: Southern African Migrant Domestic Workers in Johannesburg, Shireen Ally
Global Capitalism and Women
From Feminist Politics to Working Class Women's Politics, Martha Gimenez
Migration, Transnational Politics, and the State
Challenging the Limits of the Law: Filipina Migrant Workers' Transnational Struggles in the World for Protection and Social Justice, Robyn Magl/it Rodriguez
Identities, Nation, and Imperialism
Confronting Empire in Filipina American Feminist Thought, Anne E. Lacsamana
The Struggle for Land and Food Sovereignty
Feminism in the Mau Mau Resurgence, Leigh Brownhill and Terisa E. Turner
Alternative Economies
Mexican Women Left Behind: Organizing Solidarity Economy in Response, Ann Ferguson
Towards a Global Economy of Commoning
A "Gift to Humanity": Third World Women's Global Action to Keep the Oil in the Ground, Terisa E. Turner and Leigh Brownhill
Neo-liberalism in Women in Development Discourse
Using ICTs for Gender and Development in Africa: The Case of UNIFEM, Christabel Asiedu
Globalization and Women's Empowerment in Africa
Robert Dibie
Globalization and the Sexual Commodification of Women
Sex Trafficking Migration in South Asia, Bandana Purkayastha and Shweta Majumdar
About the Author
Ligaya Lindio-McGovern is professor of sociology at Indiana University. She is the author of Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance: A Study of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers in Global Cities and is coeditor of Gender and Globalization: Patterns of Women’s Resistance.
Isidor Wallimann is a visiting research professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and is widely published in English and German. He is a coeditor of On the Edge of Scarcity: Environment, Resources, Population, Sustainability, and Conflict and of Genocide and the Modern Age: Etiology and Case Studies of Mass Death.
6 x 9, 228 pages
August 2012