Description
| Product ID: | 9780312216597 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Women's Studies at York Series |
| Title: | Women, Globalization and Fragmentation in the Developing World |
| Authors: | Author: H. Afshar, S. Barrientos |
| Page Count: | 230 |
| Subjects: | Development economics and emerging economies, Development economics & emerging economies, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The process of globalization has had a dramatic impact on the lives of women in developing countries in the past decade. Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Women, Globalisation and Fragmentation; H. Afshar and S. Barrientos Fractioned States and Negotiated Boundaries: Gender and Law in India; S. Rai Right-Wing Mobilisation of Women in India: Hindutva''s Willing Performers; J. Phalkey The Impact of Global and the Reconstruction of Local - Islamic Ideology and Assessment of its Role in Shaping Feminist Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran; H. Afshar The Informal Sector and the Conservative Consensus: A Case of Fragmentation in Egypt; N. El-Mikawy Women-Headed Households: Global Orthodoxies and Grassroots Realities; S. Chant Women, Industrialisation and Environment in Indonesia; I. Smyth Gender and the Global Food Chain: A Comparative Study of Chile and the UK; S. Barrientos and D. Perrons Women''s Work in Changing Labour Markets: The Case of Thailand in the 1980s; R. Kurian Health Education for Women as a Liberatory Process? An Example From Tajikstan; C. Harris Why Rural Technologies Fail to Meet the Needs of Nigerian Women: Evidence From a Hausa Women''s Group in Kano State; S. Tarfa |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Palgrave USA |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1999-10-08 |
