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Gendering Globalization on the Ground - The Limits of Feminized Work for Mexican Women's Empowerment (Hardcover)
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Gendering Globalization on the Ground - The Limits of Feminized Work for Mexican Women's Empowerment (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
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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.
This volume challenges the neoliberal rationale of "empowering"
women to support market growth, and argues instead for
understanding women's empowerment as a process of transformation
from disempowerment by gender power relations to challenging
masculinist domination in households and, ultimately, the economy
and society. Because structures of gender and globalization are
mutually constituted, women's empowerment as gender democracy is
integral to producing alternative, democratic globalization. Using
a feminist methodology that gives attention to the standpoint of
women located on the downside of social hierarchies and takes into
account strategically diverse points of view, this study develops
analysis to counter neoliberal globalization as it touches down in
the lives of ordinary women and men on the border and beyond.
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