The Gender Question in Globalization: Changing Perspectives and Practices

by Driel,Francien van; Davids,Tine

• ISBN13: 9780754673224
• ISBN10: 0754673227
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

It is frequently assumed that globalization has the same features and impact everywhere on this globe, such as the feminization of poverty, labour and even peace. These ideas circulate in official documents and scientific writings, where they settle practically as truths and become global orthodoxies. This book is about deconstructing those orthodoxies. Moreover, it goes beyond dichotomous thinking of the global and the local, the modern and the traditional and women and men as opposite entities, and focuses on the global/local entanglement.Now available in paperback, this volume is a multi-layered gender analysis applied to the global/local nexus where globalization is not treated as a linear and top-down process with a known outcome and pre-conceived definition of gender. Instead, the approach scrutinizes the dynamics of each context on its own merits, including the agency of women and men. This results in unexpected outcomes and highlights a variety of differences in sometimes seemingly similar global processes.Through this gender lens, different and new meanings of gender appear, rooted in multiple modernities. The issues addresses include international labour restructuring, secuality, national identities, international feminism, peace building and migration, and the contexts in which these processes are studied are no less varied, ranging from the Latin American to the African, European and Asian continents.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Changing perspectives

Local Lived Realities

Agency Instead of Victimization: The gendered reconstruction of the Argentine auto components industry

Professionalization, sexualization: when global meets local in the working identities of secretaries in Lima Peru

Being a man: young masculinities and safe sex in Dakar

Unexpected Outcomes

Globalization and the Production of Difference

The global localization of feminist knowledge: translating Our Bodies, Ourselves

Global peace builders and local conflict: the feminization of peace in Southern Sudan

Gendered travels: single mothers' experiences at the global/local interface

Reproductive rights violations: a comparison of export-oriented industries in Mexico and Morocco

Glocalized Gender Identities

Tradition and Modernity Deconstructed

Dowry in India: respected tradition and modern monstrosity

On globalization, gender and the Nation-State

Muslim masculinity and the urban middle class family in Islamist Sudan

Political representation and the ambiguity of Mexican motherhood

Layered meanings of community: experiences of Iranian women exiles in 'Irangeles'

Conclusion: Gender and globalization: an analytical alliance

Index

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