Liberation from Liberalization Gender and Globalization in South East Asia

by Bahramitash, Roksana

• ISBN13: 9781842774397
• ISBN10: 1842774395
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-05
• Publisher: Zed Books

Summary

This book focuses on Southeast Asia and the role the state has played in the economies of Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines. While showing that the role of women in the economy has contributed significantly to economic growth, limiting the role of the state under the influence of neo-liberal globalization, particularly with welfare state reduction, has been responsible for growing poverty, especially among women. The book argues in favor of a system that incorporates women's groups into the decision-making process of the state while making sure the state remains both transparent and subject to the political advocacy of its citizens

Author Biography

Roksana Bahramitash is a Faculty Lecturer on Gender and Environment at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montreal.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(18)
Market Fundamentalism	19	(21)
The post-Second World War development effort	20	(7)
The rise of neo-liberalism	27	(5)
Alternatives to market fundamentalism	32	(8)
Who Pays for Market Fundamentalism?	40	(24)
Background to theories of gender and development	41	(2)
Women's work as defined by the market	43	(2)
Neo-liberalism and increasing women's employment	45	(8)
Women's invisible contributions	53	(4)
Labour of love: the care economy and declining social services	57	(3)
The interventionist state versus market fundamentalism	60	(4)
Taiwan: Neo-Liberalism or Developmentalist State?	64	(42)
Colonial history	64	(5)
The making of modern Taiwan	69	(8)
Women's role in Taiwan's economic success	77	(14)
Invisible economic contributions	91	(5)
Community and volunteer work: state-initiated organizations	96	(3)
Gender politics, civil society and Taiwan's future	99	(7)
Indonesia: Paper Tiger and the Asian Crisis	106	(30)
Colonial history	106	(6)
Modern Indonesia: state structure and political economy	112	(8)
Women's role in the economy	120	(16)
The Philippines: Exporting Women Is Good for Growth	136	(36)
Colonial history	136	(10)
Modern Filipino state structure and development strategy	146	(9)
Women's role in the economy	155	(17)
Conclusion: Liberalization in Crisis	172	(15)
Challenging neo-liberalist assumptions	172	(7)
APEC and the unholy marriage of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism	179	(4)
Neo-liberalism in crisis: looking into the future	183	(4)
Bibliography	187	(14)
Index	201