Remapping Gender in the New Global Order

Marjorie Griffin Cohen is an economist who is a professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Janine Brodie is a professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

• 1. Remapping Gender in the New Global Order Part 1: Changing Gender Landscapes of Globalization 2. The Shifts in Gender Norms through Globalization: Gender on the Semi-periphery of Power 3. Gender, Care Work and Globalization: Local Problems and Transnational Solutions in the Norwegian Welfare State 4. Northward Bound Mexican Labour Migration with a Gender Perspective 5. The Problem of Social Reproduction under Neoliberalism: Reconfiguring the Male-breadwinner Model in Australia Part 2: Remapping Gendered Spaces 6. Masculinity and Masculinism under Globalization: Reflections on the Canadian Case 7. Indigenous Peoples and the Topography of Gender in Mexico and Canada 8. Women’s Activism and the Marketing of the Nonprofit Community 9. Canada’s 3-D’s: The Rise and Decline of the Gender-based Policy Capacity Part 3: Surviving and Resistance: Strategies and Action 10. Reordering Globalism?: Feminist and Women’s Movements in the Semi-Periphery 11. Engendering Accountability in Government Budgets in Mexico 12. Transnational Class and Gender Networking between the North and the South: Overcoming Diversity or Reproducing Dependencies?

'As a research tool this book is very useful, providing avenues of further research through its large number of references for each chapter and statistical details'. - Linda Ding Watterson, MC Reviews