Remapping Gender in the New Global Order

Zusatztext 'As a research tool this book is very useful, providing avenues of further research through its large number of references for each chapter and statistical details'. - Linda Ding Watterson, MC Reviews Informationen zum Autor Marjorie Griffin Cohen is an economist who is a professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Janine Brodie is a professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Zusammenfassung This book analyzes changes in gender relations, as a result of globalization, in countries on the semi-periphery of power. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Remapping Gender in the New Global Order Part 1: Changing Gender Landscapes of Globalization 2. The Shifts in Gender Norms through Globalization: Gender on the Semi-periphery of Power 3. Gender, Care Work and Globalization: Local Problems and Transnational Solutions in the Norwegian Welfare State 4. Northward Bound Mexican Labour Migration with a Gender Perspective 5. The Problem of Social Reproduction under Neoliberalism: Reconfiguring the Male-breadwinner Model in Australia Part 2: Remapping Gendered Spaces 6. Masculinity and Masculinism under Globalization: Reflections on the Canadian Case 7. Indigenous Peoples and the Topography of Gender in Mexico and Canada 8. Women’s Activism and the Marketing of the Nonprofit Community 9. Canada’s 3-D’s: The Rise and Decline of the Gender-based Policy Capacity Part 3: Surviving and Resistance: Strategies and Action 10. Reordering Globalism?: Feminist and Women’s Movements in the Semi-Periphery 11. Engendering Accountability in Government Budgets in Mexico 12. Transnational Class and Gender Networking between the North and the South: Overcoming Diversity or Reproducing Dependencies?

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• Authors: Marjorie Griffin Brodie Cohen, COHEN MARJORIE GRIFFIN BRODIE JA, Marjorie (Simon Fraser University Griffin-Cohen, Marjorie Brodie Griffin-Cohen
• Assisted by: Janine Brodie (Editor), Brodie Janine (Editor), Marjorie Griffin Cohen (Editor), Marjorie Griffin-Cohen (Editor), Marjorie (Simon Fraser University Griffin-Cohen (Editor), Griffin-Cohen Marjorie (Editor), Habiba Zaman (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2007
• EAN: 9780415769976
• ISBN: 978-0-415-76997-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy; Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General