Globalization and Third World Women

Lindio-McGovern (sociology, Indiana U.) and Wallimann (Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse U.) present 11 papers that explore experiences of Third World women with the gendered nature of neoliberal capitalist globalization, with most of the essays highlighting themes of resistance. Topics include Filipina migrant workers' transnational struggles for protection and social justice, confronting empire in Filipina-American feminist thought, feminist thought in Kikuyu struggles for land and food sovereignty in Kenya, solidarity economic organizing by Mexican women, Third World women's global actions in response to oil exploitation, sex trafficking migration in South Asia, and dynamics of gender and development in Africa in the case of the United Nations Development Fund for Women. This is a paperbound reprint of a work first published in 2009. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)