Gender constructions do not stop at state boundaries.
Global understandings of masculinity and femininity can emerge
out of the matrix of international politics. Proposing an
innovative conception of global politics by de-emphasizing state
actors and instead analyzing competing transnational discourses,
"The Global Construction of Gender" focuses specifically on people
who work at home for pay. Pr?gl explores the debates and rhetoric
surrounding home-based workers that have taken place in global
movements and multilateral organizations since the early 1900s in
order to trace changing conceptions of gender over the course of
this century.
As Pr?gl relates, home-based workers, both urban and rural,
engage in a broad array of activities: they "sew garments,
embroider, make lace, roll cigarettes, weave carpets, peel shrimp,
prepare food, polish plastic, process insurance claims, edit
manuscripts, and assemble artificial flowers, umbrellas, and
jewelry." These (mostly female) workers are widely recognized as
underpaid and exploited. In investigating their plight, Pr?gl
describes the rules that have separated home and work and, in the
process, created a diverse array of distinctly gendered identities,
including that of the working mother as a social problem, the
wage-earning worker as a male breadwinner, the crafts-producing
woman as the symbol of Third World nationhood, the woman
micro-entrepreneur as the heroine of structural adjustment, and the
new androgynous home-based consultant/freelancer/teleworker as the
exemplary worker of a flexibly organized global economy.
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