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Globalization is a gendered phenomenon, says Hawkesworth (political science and women's and gender studies, Rutgers U.); it positions and affects men and women differently and produces new modes of gender power and disadvantage. She explores how globalization affects the lives of women within particular races, classes, ethnicities, and nationalities; and the power dynamics of gendering processes such as feminism that operate at great remove from the bodies of individual women and men to restructure social, economic, and political relations. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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In this comprehensive overview, Mary E. Hawkesworth explores transnational feminist efforts to produce a more just global order. Arguing that globalization is a feminist issue, she considers how social, economic, and political inequalities between men and women of different races, classes, ethnicities, and nationalities have been produced and contested over the past two centuries of capitalist development. The author demonstrates how women have forged international networks and alliances to address specific gender issues beyond the borders of the nation-state. By providing critical new insights into the gendered nature of the global system and the gendered dynamics of international institutions and nation states, this work will be invaluable for all those engaged in the interdisciplinary fields of globalization studies and feminist studies.
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