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Brooks,
Ann. Gendered work in Asian cities : the
new economy and changing labour markets.
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006
'Gendered Work in Asian Cities combines theoretical
analysis of globalization and inequality with
detailed empirical work in specific locations.
It enriches existing literature on globalization,
global cities and social changes through its
gender perspective and empirical focus on
South East Asia. This well written and carefully
researched book pays particular attention
to the lives of professional women in Hong
Kong and Singapore, set within broader debates
about globalisation, the new economy and inequality,
as well as discussions of flexible citizenship,
transnational labour and work cultures and
the management of daily life illuminated through
the author's own research.' ( Diane Perrons, London School of Economics
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Friedman, Susan
Stanford. Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural
Geographies of Encounter. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998
In response to the question of whether it
is ever possible to really know the "other,"
anthropologist Sherry Ortner offers the simple
rejoinder, "try." (1) The spirit
of that suggestion, the straightforwardness
of which masks the hard work it demands, inspires
Susan Stanford Friedman's Mappings: Feminism
and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter,
a rigorously optimistic analysis of what happens
when feminist theory meets the politics of
other progressive cultural movements such
as postcolonialism, multiculturalism and poststructuralism.
Tracing the development of feminist theory
from a focus on a homogeneously defined "woman"
to an emphasis on the plurality of women's
experiences, Mappings seeks to define a new
working (Amazon-book description). |
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Hawthorne, Susan. Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation, Bio/Diversity. North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex, 2002.
Wild Politics is about how the world could be if we took our inspiration from the idea of bio-diversity Synthesizing issues that are at the forefront of local and global politics and social movements of the twenty-first century, Wild Politics presents a powerful critique of Western culture, challenging many of its central assumptions and institutions. Susan Hawthorne examines these structures of power and knowledge, law and international trade rules. She probes into issues that affect our daily lives such as our perception of land, how food is produced and the ever-changing nature of work. But Wild Politics doesn't simply point out the challenges that we face — Hawthorne also offers a compelling vision of a world rooted in the principle of diversity. (from Publisher) |
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Kaplan, Caren.
Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses
of Displacement. Durham: Duke UP, 1996
This rhetorically powerful book, appearing
in a series edited by Stanley Fish and Fredric
Jameson called "Post-Contemporary Interventions,"
is an informative detour around recent theory
as well as a useful alternative guide for
scholars of modernism and its outposts, including
postcolonial studies, feminist studies, and
cultural-materialist analyses. Kaplan's attention
to the material and historical underpinnings
of theories and practices of travel is a valuable
extension of the often unsituated discussions
of exile, displacement, and diaspora we find
in contemporary discussions. Questions of
Travel maps both a "post-postmodernist"
and feminist semiotics of "movement"
that locates the off-site markers and the
significations of power emerging from class,
race, and gender struggles. Kaplan's decisive
critique of Jean Baudrillard's colonial recuperation
of the aestheticist distance in traveling
is as powerful as her elaborate critique of
traveling theorists such as Edward Said, James
Clifford, and Gilles Deleuze, who, in Kaplan's
view, each shift their terms of critical practice
beyond modernist travels, but who still reproduce
"modernist exile formations in the midst
of a postmodern articulation." She takes,
in particular, Clifford's theories of cosmopolitan
hybridity to task on the grounds of repressed
class, gender, and geographical differences
(Carmen Faymonville-University of Wisconsin,
Platteville). |
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Carla
Freeman Is Local: Global as Feminine: Masculine?
Rethinking the Gender of Globalization Signs,
Vol. 26, No. 4, Globalization and Gender.
(Summer, 2001), pp. 1007-1037
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=00979740%28200122%2926%3A4%3C1007%3AILGAFM%3
E2.0.CO%3B2-R
…Illustrating
that globalization works in multiple and changing
ways that are at once steeped in history,
culture, gender and that operate in and emerge
out of local contexts in a relationship that
is both dialectical and in flux (excerpt
from the article). |
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