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Women Navigating Globalization

Feminist Approaches to Development

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

AvJana Everett,Sue Ellen M. Charlton

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This up-to-date text offers a clear and cogent introduction to women in development. Exploring the global structures and processes that impede or support the empowerment of women, Jana Everett and Sue Ellen M. Charlton use a feminist lens to understand contemporary gender roles. Without such a lens, they argue, our understanding of globalization and development is incomplete, resulting in flawed policies that fail to improve the lives of millions of people around the globe. After a set of introductory chapters that conceptually frame the issues, the authors then investigate women’s struggles within and against globalization and development through powerful case studies of sex trafficking, water, work, and health. These chapters, by using specific examples, develop the concepts of structure and agency, levels of analysis, and feminist approaches as tools to help students understand the complexities of development and alternative strategies.Through rich interdisciplinary analysis, Everett and Charlton explore the individual and collective strategies women have used to improve their lives under globalization and weigh how effective they have been. Their book will be an essential resource in women’s studies, political science, political economy, anthropology, sociology, and development studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-11-14
Mått156 x 237 x 21 mm
Vikt463 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Millennium Books in International Studies
Antal sidor228
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781442225763

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Chapter 1: Feminism and Development in a Global WorldChapter 2: Navigating Globalization: Feminist Approaches to DevelopmentChapter 3: Development, Globalization, and PowerChapter 4: Debates and Dilemmas: Global Sex TraffickingChapter 5: Debates and Dilemmas: WaterChapter 6: Debates and Dilemmas: WorkChapter 7: Debates and Dilemmas: HealthChapter 8: Collective Action, Development, and the Challenges of Globalization

Everett and Charlton have written a clear, comprehensive analysis of globalization and development examined through the lens of feminist analysis. They begin with conceptual analyses of their terms, soundly documented and referenced with key studies. They embrace multiple forms of feminism as practiced differently in diverse world areas. The authors provide a balanced emphasis on top-down structures that shape lives and on the agency that women bring, individually and collectively, to their situations. Everett and Charlton ask and answer their key questions at different levels of analysis, from local and regional to national and international. In four chapters, before their conclusion, they offer innovative applications of these concepts in four areas and eight places: human trafficking (Russia and Bangladesh), water (Peru and South Africa), work (Brazil and India), and women's health (Chile and the African Union) . . . [T]hese experienced researchers/authors . . . analyze the material in a sophisticated yet accessible way, which will be of value to upper-division or graduate students and academics. The book is as comprehensive as Mary Hawkesworth's Globalization and Feminist Activism. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate, graduate, and research collections.