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Women, Globalization and Fragmentation in the Developing World

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Haleh Afshar

    1. Department of Politics, University of York, UK

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  2. Stephanie Barrientos

    1. Department of Economics, University of Hertfordshire, UK

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Part of the book series: Women's Studies at York Series (WSYS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Women, Globalization and Fragmentation

    • Haleh Afshar, Stephanie Barrientos
    Pages 1-17

  3. Fractioned States and Negotiated Boundaries: Gender and Law in India

    • Shirin M. Rai
    Pages 18-37

  4. Right-wing Mobilization of Women in India: Hindutva’s Willing Performers

    • Jahnavi Phalkey
    Pages 38-53

  5. 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
    Pages 54-76

  6. The Informal Sector and the Conservative Consensus: a Case of Fragmentation in Egypt

    • Noha El-Mikawy
    Pages 77-90

  7. Women-headed Households: Global Orthodoxies and Grassroots Realities

    • Sylvia Chant
    Pages 91-130

  8. Women, Industrialization and the Environment in Indonesia

    • Ines Smyth
    Pages 131-149

  9. Gender and the Global Food Chain: a Comparative Study of Chile and the UK

    • Stephanie Barrientos, Diane Perrons
    Pages 150-173

  10. Women’s Work in Changing Labour Markets: the Case of Thailand in the 1980s

    • Rachel Kurian
    Pages 174-195

  11. Health Education for Women as a Liberatory Process? An Example from Tajikistan

    • Colette Harris
    Pages 196-214

  12. Why Rural Technologies Fail to Meet the Needs of Nigerian Women: Evidence from Hausa Women’s Groups in Kano State

    • Sintiki Tarfa
    Pages 215-225

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 226-230
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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 feminisation 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. This book explores the experiences of women in diverse local contexts within different cultures and faiths, drawing on case studies from Asia, Africa and Latin America. It draws out the contradictory and fragmented impact of globalization at the local level on the lives of women in the developing world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Politics, University of York, UK

    Haleh Afshar

  • Department of Economics, University of Hertfordshire, UK

    Stephanie Barrientos

About the editors

SYLVIA CHANT Reader in Geography, London School of Economics NOHA EL-MIKAWY Research Fellow, University of Er-langen COLETTE HARRIS currently working on her PhD, Institute of Development Research, Amsterdam University RACHEL KURIAN Senior Lecturer in International Labour Economics, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague JAHNAVI PHALKEY Research Fellow, Asiatic Society, Bombay DIANE PERRONS Lecturer in Geography, London School of Economics SHIRIN RAI Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Warwick INES SMYTH has a PhD in Social Anthropology, University College London SINTIKI TARFA Lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology

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