Gender and global restructuring : sightings, sites and resistances
Bundel over de relatie globalisering en gender, waarbij met name drie zaken aan de orde komen: ontwikkeling van theorieën over globalisering door toevoeging van het genderconcept; veranderingen in staten, steden, huishoudens, economie, maatschappij enz. in verschillende nationale en regionale contexten; reacties en vormen van verzet tegen globalisering. Bevat: Globalization and its intimate other: Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong; Breaking patriarchal bonds: demythologizing the public/private; Masculinities in transition: the case of globalization; Gendering post-socialist transitions; Economic restructuring and the gender contract: a case study of Jordan; A political explanation of the gendered division of labor in Japan; Beyond a reductional analysis of female migrants in global European cities: the unskilled, deskilled, and professional; Women and livelihood strategies: a case study of coping with economic crisis through household management in Paramaribo, Suriname; Negotiating boundaries: women's organizations and the politics of restructuring in Ecuador; (Re)negotiating selfhood and citizenship in the post-communist Czech Republic: five women activists speak about transition and feminism; Feminism and Islamisms in Egypt: between globalization and postmodernism; Dancing resistance from Rio to Beijing: transnational women's organizing and United Nations conferences, 1992-6. Deze publicatie is voortgekomen uit een internationale en interdisciplinaire conferentie over 'Gender and global restructuring: shifting sites and sightings', georganiseerd in mei 1995.