Global Woman

Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805075090
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Woman written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two social scientists chart the consequences of the global economy on women across the world, revealing the underground economy that has turned many poor women into virtual slaves.

Author : Lalaie Ameeriar
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373408
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Downwardly Global written by Lalaie Ameeriar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Downwardly Global Lalaie Ameeriar examines the transnational labor migration of Pakistani women to Toronto. Despite being trained professionals in fields including engineering, law, medicine, and education, they experience high levels of unemployment and poverty. Rather than addressing this downward mobility as the result of bureaucratic failures, in practice their unemployment is treated as a problem of culture and racialized bodily difference. In Toronto, a city that prides itself on multicultural inclusion, women are subjected to two distinct cultural contexts revealing that integration in Canada represents not the erasure of all differences, but the celebration of some differences and the eradication of others. Downwardly Global juxtaposes the experiences of these women in state-funded unemployment workshops, where they are instructed not to smell like Indian food or wear ethnic clothing, with their experiences at cultural festivals in which they are encouraged to promote these same differences. This form of multiculturalism, Ameeriar reveals, privileges whiteness while using race, gender, and cultural difference as a scapegoat for the failures of Canadian neoliberal policies.

Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429963050
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Woman written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are multitudes of women whose journeys go unnoticed. Each year, millions leave Mexico, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and other third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor associated with women's traditional roles results in an odd displacement. In the new global calculus, the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones, often to the detriment of the families left behind. The migrant nanny--or cleaning woman, nursing care attendant, maid--eases a "care deficit" in rich countries, while her absence creates a "care deficit" back home. Confronting a range of topics, from the fate of Vietnamese mail-order brides to the importation of Mexican nannies in Los Angeles and the selling of Thai girls to Japanese brothels, Global Woman offers an unprecedented look at a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever-increasing scale. In fifteen vivid essays-- of which only four have been previously published-- by a diverse and distinguished group of writers, collected and introduced by bestselling authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, this important anthology reveals a new era in which the main resource extracted from the third world is no longer gold or silver, but love.

Author : Caroline Criado Perez
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683353145
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invisible Women written by Caroline Criado Perez and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 International Bestseller Winner of the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Winner of the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize A landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women, now in paperback Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias, in time, in money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates this shocking root cause of gender inequality in the award-winning, #1 international bestseller Invisible Women. Examining the home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more, Criado Perez unearths a dangerous pattern in data and its consequences on women’s lives. Product designers use a “one-size-fits-all” approach to everything from pianos to cell phones to voice recognition software, when in fact this approach is designed to fit men. Cities prioritize men’s needs when designing public transportation, roads, and even snow removal, neglecting to consider women’s safety or unique responsibilities and travel patterns. And in medical research, women have largely been excluded from studies and textbooks, leaving them chronically misunderstood, mistreated, and misdiagnosed. Built on hundreds of studies in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, highly readable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.

Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 080506995X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Woman written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-01-06 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, millions of women leave third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labour associated with women's traditional roles results in an odd displacement. In the new global calculus, the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones, often to the detriment of the families left behind. The migrant nanny - or cleaning woman, nursing care attendant, maid - eases a 'care deficit' in rich countries, while her absence creates a 'care deficit' back home. Confronting a range of topics, from the fate of Vietnamese mail-order brides to the importation of Mexican nannies in Los Angeles and the selling of Thai girls to Japanese brothels, 'Global woman' offers an unprecedented look at a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever-increasing scale.

Author : Nina Ansary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986406447
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anonymous Is a Woman written by Nina Ansary and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author and women's rights advocate Dr. Nina Ansary takes readers on a 4,000-year historical journey to expose the repercussions of centuries of gender inequality. The book's biographical profiles of fifty forgotten innovators"€"brought to life by international illustrator Petra Dufkova"€"shatter deeply rooted gender myths to tell remarkable stories about groundbreaking contributions to the global community. In 1929, British novelist Virginia Woolf ran her fingers along the spines of the books in her library wondering why no woman in Shakespeare's era had written "a word of that extraordinary literature when every other man, it seemed, was capable of song or sonnet." She concluded, "Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." Nearly a century after Woolf penned those incisive words"€"frequently modified as "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman""€"the phenomenon of female anonymity persists as women worldwide continue to be restricted by society's formal and unspoken barriers. Why does Virginia Woolf's statement still echo in the twenty-first century? Why have women been consistently denied opportunities that are automatically given to men? And why has the historical record failed to adequately recognize notable women? Anonymous Is a Woman. . .exposes the roots and manifestations of institutionalized gender discrimination; dismantles centuries of historical bias through biographical profiles of fifty remarkable, yet forgotten women innovators; and challenges ingrained stereotypical assumptions to advance an unconventional argument for equality and inclusivity. 100% of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated. The primary recipients will be The Center for Human Rights in Iran, a New York-based 501(c)(3) registered nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights in Iran, and The London School of Economics Centre for Women, Peace, and Security, an academic space for scholars, practitioners, activists, policymakers, and students to develop strategies that promote justice, human rights, and participation of women in conflict-affected situations around the world.

Author : Chizoma C. Nosiri
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761870970
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Woman’s Impact on E-Commerce written by Chizoma C. Nosiri and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the group that leads the consumer world, the global female consumer’s perspective and complaints to Western corporations through computer-mediated communication tools is inefficient. This elevation of online communication conflict brings with it multiple intimidations and tests the global female’s confidence.

Author : Shoma Munshi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136120661
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of the Modern Woman in Asia written by Shoma Munshi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In examining the links between gender and the media, this volume asks questions involving the relationship between global media flows, gender and modernity in the region.

Author : Patricia Goodman Hayward
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668424916
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Community Leaders and Their Impact as Global Changemakers written by Patricia Goodman Hayward and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edited book project will include key academic concepts as transformative learning, community resilience, cultural transformation, and transformational leadership with the objective being to identify the vision and associated values being applied during a challenge or a cultural change process particularly in women"--

Author : Ruth Rubio-Marin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316827585
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women's Citizenship written by Ruth Rubio-Marin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutions around the world have overwhelmingly been the creation of men, but this book asks how far constitutions have affirmed the equal citizenship status of women or failed to do so. Using a wealth of examples from around the world, Ruth Rubio-Marín considers constitutionalism from its inception to the present day and places current debates in their vital historical context. Rubio-Marín adopts an inclusive concept of gender and sexuality, and discusses the constitutional gender order as it has been shaped by debates such those around same-sex marriage and the rights of trans persons. Covering a wide range of themes, from reproductive rights to political gender quotas and violence against women, this book offers a comprehensive feminist account of constitutional law. Truly international in scope and ambitious in subject matter, this is an invaluable resource for students and scholars working on gender within multiple disciplines.