Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific by Kathy E Ferguson

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A collection of essays, which take stock of globalization's complexities. It pursues critical feminist inquiry about women, gender, and sexualities and produces insights into changing life patterns in Asian and Pacific Island societies.

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Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific by Kathy E Ferguson

What is globalization? How is it gendered? How does it work in Asia and the Pacific? The authors of the sixteen original and innovative essays presented here take fresh stock of globalization's complexities. They pursue critical feminist inquiry about women, gender, and sexualities and produce original insights into changing life patterns in Asian and Pacific Island societies.Each essay puts the lives and struggles of women at the center of its examination while weaving examples of global circuits in Asian and Pacific societies into a world frame of analysis.
Kathy E. Ferguson is professor of political science and women's studies at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa. Monique Mironesco is assistant professor of political science at the University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu and teaches women's studies and political science at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa and Chaminade University, respectively.
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ISBN 13 9780824832414
ISBN 10 0824832418
Title Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific
Author Kathy E Ferguson
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Hawai'i Press
Year published 2008-08-30
Number of pages 408
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