| Description |
xi, 230 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Women's studies at York series |
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Women's studies at York series.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Women, Globalization and Fragmentation / Haleh Afshar and Stephanie Barrientos -- 2. Fractioned States and Negotiated Boundaries: Gender and Law in India / Shirin M. Rai -- 3. Right-wing Mobilization of Women in India: Hindutva's Willing Performers / Jahnavi Phalkey -- 4. The Impact of Global and the Reconstruction of Local Islamic Ideology, and an Assessment of its Role in Shaping Feminist Politics in post-Revolutionary Iran / Haleh Afshar -- 5. The Informal Sector and the Conservative Consensus: a Case of Fragmentation in Egypt / Noha El-Mikawy -- 6. Women-headed Households: Global Orthodoxies and Grassroots Realities / Sylvia Chant -- 7. Women, Industrialization and the Environment in Indonesia / Ines Smyth -- 8. Gender and the Global Food Chain: a Comparative Study of Chile and the UK / Stephanie Barrientos and Diane Perrons -- 9. Women's Work in Changing Labour Markets: the Case of Thailand in the 1980s / Rachel Kurian |
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10. Health Education for Women as a Liberatory Process? An Example from Tajikistan / Colette Harris -- 11. Why Rural Technologies Fail to Meet the Needs of Nigerian Women: Evidence from Hausa Women's Groups in Kano State / Sintiki Tarfa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Globalization.
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Women in development -- Developing countries.
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Women -- Developing countries -- Economic conditions.
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Women -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Afshar, Haleh, 1944-
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Barrientos, Stephanie.
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| LC no. |
98023858 |
| ISBN |
0312216599 cloth St. Martin's |
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0333739272 hardback Macmillan |
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0333739280 paperback Macmillan |
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