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The Gender Order of Neoliberalism / Smitha Radhakrishnan, Cinzia D. Solari.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Radhakrishnan, Smitha, 1978- author.
- Solari, Cinzia D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neoliberalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, 2023.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: A Multicentric World Order
- The neoliberal feminist "cover story"
- Theorizing a gendered, multicentric world order
- The past and present of neoliberalism's gender order
- 2 Neoliberalism's Pre-histories
- The American "liberal" deal: modernity through economic opportunity for White families
- The Soviet Union's deal with women: "Build socialism alongside men"
- India: forging indigenous nationalism between capitalism and socialism
- Conclusion
- 3 Investing in "Empowered" Women
- The era of competing ideologies: postcoloniality, modernization, and communism during the Cold War
- Empowerment discourse: a brief genealogy
- Women's empowerment
- Education for all
- American theories of social work
- Human capital tames empowerment
- Freire's radical push for schooling for all, and why the United States eventually killed it
- Gender equality and economic growth
- 4 Neoliberalism's Gendered Architecture
- Cooking up neoliberalism: East-West circuits of power and expertise
- Structuring condition #1: States protect elites and global capital
- Structuring condition #2: Strengthened national borders support global trade but restrict migration
- Key Actor #1: Individuals
- Key actor #2: Nation-states
- Imperialism, hegemony, and aspiration in US neoliberalism
- A complete break from the socialist past in the FSU
- Meritocracy, free markets, and an emerging economy: India's neoliberal turn
- 5 Moving Toward Modernity
- Global economic restructuring and the limits of human capital theory
- Modernity threat: migrant domestic workers
- Philippines: the labor brokerage state and "export quality" women
- Former Soviet Bloc countries: becoming European
- Modernity promise: marriage migrants
- 6 Manly Protectors
- Anxious men, exhausted women
- "Irrelevant" men in three regions
- Affect and nation: the opening for an oppositional modernity
- Othering through misogyny
- Othering through homophobia
- Putin: fantasies of empire
- Modi: building a "global" Hindu nation from the inside out
- Trump: uniting the right
- 7 Conclusion: A Fairer Multipolar Future
- Gender and national belonging: a view from COVID-19 times
- Remembering the historical roots of Russia's war in Ukraine
- Justice not modernity: centering human flourishing and care
- A final note: the need for joy
- Notes
- Chapter 1 Introduction: A Multicentric World Order
- Chapter 2 Neoliberalism's Pre-histories
- Chapter 3 Investing in "Empowered" Women
- Chapter 4 Neoliberalism's Gendered Architecture
- Chapter 5 Moving Toward Modernity
- Chapter 6 Manly Protectors
- Chapter 7 Conclusion: A Fairer Multipolar Future
- References
- Index
- EULA
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 14, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Radhakrishnan, Smitha The Gender Order of Neoliberalism
- ISBN:
- 9781509558865
- 1509558861
- Publisher Number:
- 40031918367
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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