Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites, and Resistances (Ripe Series in Global Political Economy.)

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