Women, globalization and fragmentation in the developing world / edited by Haleh Afshar and Stephanie Barrientos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Afshar, Haleh, 1944-2022

Barrientos, Stephanie.

Series:

Women's studies at York series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in development--Developing countries.

Women in development.

Developing countries.

Women--Developing countries--Economic conditions.

Women.

Economic conditions.

Women--Developing countries--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xi, 230 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

The process of globalization has had a dramatic impact on the lives of women in developing countries in the past decade. They have been increasingly drawn into insecure, flexible employment working for the world market. The feminization of the labour market has increased the burdens on women; and the inability of men to access full-time, well-remunerated employment has exacerbated the process of male out-migration and has left many families headed by women. At the same time, the reduction in state services and welfare has increased the burdens placed on women. Nevertheless the consequences of globalization have been different for different women in different places. In some circumstances it has created opportunities for greater empowerment, whilst in others it has stimulated a reaction and increased the subordination of women.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Women, Globalization and Fragmentation / Haleh Afshar, Stephanie Barrientos 1

2 Fractioned States and Negotiated Boundaries: Gender and Law in India / Shirin M. Rai 18

3 Right-wing Mobilization of Women in India: Hindutva's Willing Performers / Jahnavi Phalkey 38

4 The Impact of Global and the Reconstruction of Local Islamic Ideology, and an Assessment of its Role in Shaping Feminist Politics in post-Revolutionary Iran / Haleh Afshar 54

5 The Informal Sector and the Conservative Consensus: a Case of Fragmentation in Egypt / Noha El-Mikawy 77

6 Women-headed Households: Global Orthodoxies and Grassroots Realities / Sylvia Chant 91

7 Women, Industrialization and the Environment in Indonesia / Ines Smyth 131

8 Gender and the Global Food Chain: a Comparative Study of Chile and the UK / Stephanie Barrientos, Diane Perrons 150

9 Women's Work in Changing Labour Markets: the Case of Thailand in the 1980s / Rachel Kurian 174

10 Health Education for Women as a Liberatory Process? An Example from Tajikistan / Colette Harris 196

11 Why Rural Technologies Fail to Meet the Needs of Nigerian Women: Evidence from Hausa Women's Groups in Kano State / Sintiki Tarfa 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312216599

OCLC:

39108721