Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites and Resistances (Routledge RIPE studies in global political economy. RIPE series in global political economy)

This and many other provocative questions are addressed in this ground breaking book. Filling a significant gap Gender and Global Restructuring provides the first comprehensive analysis of globalization and its relationship to gender. Feminist experts from a range of disciplines take the reader beyond narrow interpretations of globalization and show the complexities and contradictions of ongoing global transformations, referred to as global restructuring. The book presents a significant critique of the gender-blindness of both neo-liberal and critical accounts of globalization and foregrounds feminist accounts which stress women's agency, not just victimization, in relation to global restructuring. It reveals how states, markets, civil society, households and gender identities are simultaneously being restructured in different ways in different regional and national contexts. It also shows how women's resistances connect the global and the local, the public and the private. This pioneering collection will be vital reading for students and researchers in the fields of globalization, gender studies, international political economy, international relations and comparative Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 Illustrations......Page 9 Contributors......Page 10 Series editors’ preface......Page 13 Acknowledgements......Page 15 Abbreviations......Page 17 Introduction......Page 19 Globalization versus global restructuring......Page 21 Gender and global restructuring......Page 26 Feminist sightings: critiques of the gendered discourses of restructuring......Page 30 Feminist sites: critiques of the market, the state, and civil society......Page 34 Feminist resistances: local/national/global struggles, hybrid spaces, and multiple strategies7......Page 37 Concluding comments......Page 39 Notes......Page 40 Part I Sightings......Page 42 Introduction......Page 45 Global restructuring I: techno-muscular capitalism (TMC)......Page 46 The role of the state......Page 47 Global society/culture/persons......Page 48 Globalization as colonial rhetoric......Page 49 A globalized service economy......Page 52 The complicit, patriarchal state......Page 53 Transnational ideology of racialized, sexualized service......Page 55 Cultural reification: God, family, and country15......Page 56 Sexual alternative: tomboyism......Page 58 Conclusion......Page 59 Notes......Page 61 2 Breaking patriarchal bonds......Page 63 The nature of the patriarchal “prism”......Page 64 Space and power: gender and public/private divides......Page 66 From the private to the public: agency and spatiality......Page 71 Conclusions: an atypical case points the way......Page 74 Notes......Page 75 Introduction......Page 78 Multiple masculinities......Page 80 Anglo-American hegemonic masculinity......Page 82 Globalization and hegemonic masculinity in The Economist......Page 83 Conclusions......Page 89 Notes......Page 91 4 Gendering post-socialist transitions1......Page 94 Gender in the global political economy......Page 95 Winners or losers in post-socialist transitions?......Page 97 Re-siting gender in post-socialism......Page 99 A two-tiered economy?......Page 100 Foreign enclaves......Page 101 Cushioning the transition—women go home!......Page 103 Fertility strike!......Page 105 Men of steel? Preserving male industries in the transition......Page 106 Structural disequilibrium: transitional gains for post-socialist women?......Page 109 Conclusion: between the market and the state......Page 111 Notes......Page 112 Part II Sites......Page 115 5 Economic restructuring and the gender contract......Page 118 Liberalizing economies and working women......Page 119 Gender relations and the patriarchal gender contract......Page 120 Globalization and feminization......Page 122 Economic restructuring and women in Jordan......Page 125 Characteristics of the labor force in Jordan......Page 126 Liberalization and women’s employment in Jordan......Page 127 Women’s unemployment in Jordan......Page 130 Poverty in Jordan......Page 131 Initiatives to support working women......Page 132 Conclusions: globalization and the gender contract......Page 133 Notes......Page 134 Competing explanations: culture, capitalism and public policies......Page 136 A case study: the making of the EEOL......Page 138 Why the EEOL became “toothless”......Page 141 Labor unions vs. business......Page 142 Structural bias......Page 143 Conclusion......Page 146 Notes......Page 147 Introduction......Page 150 Diversification of migratory flows......Page 151 Gender divisions and immigration......Page 155 Conclusion......Page 159 Notes......Page 160 Introduction......Page 161 Suriname and the crisis......Page 163 The structure of earning opportunities......Page 165 Employment and education......Page 166 The composition of households......Page 167 Income problems and the need for individual and networking activities......Page 168 Budgeting patterns and distribution mechanisms......Page 171 Entitlements and the bargaining power of women......Page 174 Conclusion......Page 175 Notes......Page 176 Part III Resistances......Page 178 Introduction......Page 181 Restructured spaces: neighborhood-based women’s movements......Page 183 Ecuadorian neighborhood women’s organizations and the politics of restructuring......Page 184 Negotiating boundaries: women’s political responses to restructuring......Page 189 Negotiating public/private boundaries......Page 190 The contradictions of neoliberalism......Page 191 Rethinking national and international boundaries......Page 193 Notes......Page 194 Introduction......Page 197 Personal agency: at the crossroads of socialism and liberal capitalism......Page 199 Aesthetic gains of the revolution......Page 202 A socialist egalitarian critique of materialistic values......Page 204 Czech gender humanism as a reaction to “Western feminism”......Page 206 A spirit of feminist resistance......Page 210 Conclusion......Page 211 Notes......Page 212 Globalization, postmodernity and Islamisms......Page 216 Globalization, Islamisms and feminisins......Page 218 Grand narratives: Islamisms in Egypt......Page 219 The marginalized narratives: feminisms in Egypt......Page 221 Abeyya (Islamist, 31 years old, journalist)......Page 223 Tahani (43 years of age, lawyer)......Page 224 Aida (45 years of age, physician)......Page 227 The need for “new paradigms” and localized feminist resistances......Page 228 Notes......Page 230 Introduction......Page 232 The early years of women’s transnational organizing......Page 235 The dancers of transnational women’s movements: the choreography of women’s caucuses......Page 237 The dance steps: women’s caucuses resisting global restructuring......Page 240 The dance of restructuring: partnering, coopting, pushing away, and side-stepping......Page 245 Conclusions......Page 246 Notes......Page 247 Conclusion......Page 248 Notes......Page 253 Bibliography......Page 254 Index......Page 279 Comprises 12 papers which provide a gender analysis of globalization (global restructuring). Focuses on three interrelated issues: gendered constructions of the new global political economy; the restructuring of states, markets, civil society and households; and responses and forms of resistance to global restructuring. Includes chapters on: Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong; employment opportunities in Jordan and Japan; immigrant women in European cities; economic crises and household management in Suriname; women's organizations in Ecuador; feminism in the Czech Republic and Egypt; and women's transnational solidarity Taking us beyond the narrow limits of conventional approaches to globalisation, this book reveals the complexities and contradictions inherent in gender and global restructuring. Includes case studies