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001 2007014788
003 DLC
005 20081121102123.0
008 070412s2007 coua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007014788
020 $a9781594513473 (hc : alk. paper)
020 $a1594513473 (hc : alk. paper)
020 $a9781594513480 (pbk.)
020 $a1594513481 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)123284651$z(OCoLC)148681255$z(OCoLC)171111804
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050 00 $aHQ1381$b.W35 2007
082 00 $a362.83086/942$222
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn123284651
245 04 $aThe wages of empire :$bneoliberal policies, repression, and women's poverty /$cedited by Amalia L. Cabezas, Ellen Reese, and Marguerite Waller.
260 $aBoulder :$bParadigm Publishers,$cc2007.
300 $aviii, 248 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aTransnational feminist studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-233) and index.
505 0 $aThe policies and ideologies of neoliberal globalization -- Introduction -- Poverty and the vicious cycle of AIDS / Bernardo Useche and Amalia Cabezas -- In her name: the politics of global poverty management / Ananya Roy -- "Haute culture" for mail order missionaries: representing the third world -- Woman in the American fashion magazine / Jennifer Lynn Stoever -- Impacts of neo-liberal policy and ideology: case studies -- Tea's fortunes and famines: global capital, women workers, and survival in Indian plantation country / Piya Chatterjee -- Macro-economics and micro-entrepreneurs: comparing two island nations? -- Responses to neo-liberalism and its impact on women's lives / Marina Karides -- Politicians, think tanks, and the global promotion of the "Wisconsin model" of welfare reform / Ellen Reese -- Service provisioning as political activity: struggles for citizenship in Britain's declining welfare state / Tracy Fisher -- Laboring under corporate globalization: case studies -- Neoliberalism, globalization, and the international division of care / Joya Misra and Sabine N. Merz -- The tortilla behemoth: sexualized despotism and women's resistance in a transnational Mexican tortilla factory / Carolina Bank Mu?oz -- Roses, thorns, and seven dollars a day: women workers in Colombia's export flower industry / Cynthia Mellon -- The process of exporting neo-liberal development: the consequences of the growth of EPZs in El Salvador / Jill Esbenshade -- War and military repression -- Bacteria, bioterrorism, and the geranium ladies of Guatemala / Caitilyn Allen -- "Globalization" under occupation: gender and poverty in Iraq and Palestine / Jennifer Olmsted -- Amazons go to war without weapons: women and the conflict in Escravos Niger Delta / Joy Ngozi Ezeilo -- Building empire on the backs of women: U.S. actions or the role of the United States in Afghanistan / Sonali Kolhatkar -- Bibliography -- About the contributors.
650 0 $aWomen$xEconomic conditions$vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 $aWomen$zDeveloping countries$xEconomic conditions.
650 0 $aSex discrimination against women$vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 $aGlobalization$xEconomic aspects.
650 0 $aInternational trade$xEconomic aspects.
700 1 $aCabezas, Amalia L.
700 1 $aReese, Ellen,$d1969-
700 1 $aWaller, Marguerite R.,$d1948-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007014788.html