Women Navigating Globalization

Jana Everett is professor of political science at the University of Colorado Denver. Sue Ellen M. Charlton is professor emerita of political science at Colorado State University.

• 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.