The Gender Question in Globalization: Changing Perspectives And Practices

by Davids, Tine; Driel, Francien Van

• ISBN13: 9780754639237
• ISBN10: 0754639231
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-30
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

Orthodox views of globalization assume that it has the same features and impact everywhere, i.e. the feminization of poverty, labour and even peace. As these ideas circulate in official documents and scientific writings, they settle practically as truths. This challenging and unique book is amongst the first to deconstruct these orthodoxies, using a multi-layered gender analysis where globalization is not treated as a linear and top-down process with a known outcome and a pre-conceived definition of gender. Instead, the authors scrutinize the dynamics of each context on its own merits, including the agency of women and men, resulting in unexpected and groundbreaking insights into the variety of differences apparent, even in sometimes seemingly similar global processes. Through this gender lens, different and new meanings of gender appear, rooted in multiple modernities. The book will be a seminal contribution to debates in the fields of international labour, sexuality, identity, feminism, peace studies and migration.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
List of Contributors	xi
INTRODUCTION
1 Changing Perspectives
Tine Davids and Francien van Driel	3	(22)
LOCAL LIVED REALITIES: AGENCY INSTEAD OF VICTIMIZATION
2 The Gendered Reconstruction of the Argentine Auto Components Industry
Lineke Stobbe	25	(16)
3 Professionalization, Sexualization: When Global Meets Local in the Working Identities of Secretaries in Lima, Peru
Lorraine Nencel	41	(18)
4 Being a Man: Young Masculinities and Safe Sex in Dakar
Anouka van Eerdewijk	59	(18)
UNEXPECTED OUTCOMES: GLOBALIZATION AND THE PRODUCTION OF DIFFERENCE
5 The Global Localization of Feminist Knowledge: Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves
Kathy Davis	77	(16)
6 Global Peace Builders and Local Conflict: The Feminization of Peace in Southern Sudan
Dorothea Hilhorst and Mathijs van Leeuwen	93	(16)
7 Gendered Travels: Single Mothers' Experiences at the Global/Local Interface
Annelou Ypeij	109	(16)
8 Reproductive Rights Violations: A Comparison of Export-Oriented Industries in Mexico and Morocco
Fenneke Reysoo	125	(18)
GLOCALIZED GENDER IDENTITIES: TRADITION AND MODERNITY DECONSTRUCTED
9 Dowry in India: Respected Tradition and Modern Monstrosity
Marion den Uyl	143	(16)
10 On Globalization, Gender and the Nation-State: Muslim Masculinity and the Urban Middle-Class Family in Islamist Sudan
Karin Willemse	159	(20)
11 Political Representation and the Ambiguity of Mexican Motherhood
Tine Davids	179	(18)
12 Layered Meanings of Community: Experiences of Iranian Women Exiles in 'Irangeles'
Halleh Ghorashi	197	(20)
CONCLUSION
13 Gender and Globalization: An Analytical Alliance
Tine Davids and Francien van Driel	217	(12)
Index	229