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Gay Young

Gendering Globalization on the Ground

The Limits of Feminized Work for Mexican Women's Empowerment

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How has globalization worked for women working on the frontlines of neoliberalism on the Mexico-US border? This border divides US from Others, and produces social inequalities that form a site where marginalized border women encounter the othering power of neoliberalism and confront inequalities of gender and class. Within this context, a critical comparison of socially similar women, working either in export production industries or in small-scale commerce and low-level services in Ciudad Juarez, reveals how export factory work constrains women's empowerment at home - as well as the wages they earn and the well-being of their households. Thi… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-138-80982-6
  • EAN: 9781138809826
  • Produktnummer: 16510819
  • Verlag: Taylor and Francis
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 244 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 640 g
  • Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
  • Gewicht: 640

Über den Autor


Gay Young is Associate Professor of Sociology at American University, and was Director of AU's Program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies for eight years.

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