WOMEN, INK. BOOKLINK #62
December 2006
Joeyta Bose
This month, we feature an exciting
array of titles and additional resources in the area of
economics and globalization. The new titles for this
month are: 1. Mainstreaming Gender in Debt
and Development Resource Management 2. Global Dimensions of Gender and
Carework 3. Poverty, Gender and
Migration 4. Women in Motion 5. Dialogue and Difference 6. Globalization and Feminist
Activism Visit our website at
www.womenink.org
for further information and to buy any of the featured
titles. This book from the Commonwealth
Secretariat will help both debt and gender practitioners
to understand the links between their two disciplines.
Recognizing the importance of gender equality for
economic and social development, it takes a critical look
at the actions that the main international development
agencies and bilateral donors have taken to promote and
integrate gender issues in development assistance. It
also suggests practical ways for developing country
governments to integrate gender equality considerations
into their debt and development resource management, and
makes recommendations for debt recording systems to
better track the impact of debt and externally funded
programmes on women and men. Offering examples of good
practice and innovative initiatives from a variety of
countries and organizations, this book is relevant to
both developing and developed countries. Global Dimensions of Gender and
Carework Why do so many women perform jobs
that involve carework? What political forces have made
these women key participants in globalization? What are
the consequences for the women themselves, for their
families and for societies and international relations in
general? This book offers a provocative examination of
globalization, examining the lives of the women at the
centre of these new global dynamics. Arguing that society
is facing multiple crises of care, the authors develop a
new framework for understanding the interplay of
globalization, gender and carework. In four original
essays, they examine gender, race and class inequality;
migration, citizenship and the politics of social
control; the evolving meanings of motherhood; and new
social definitions of carework and the personal
transformation of careworkers. Excerpts from the classic
works in the field as well as recent cutting-edge
research studies support the examination of each of these
growing global crises. Poverty, Gender and
Migration The papers in this volume study the
new internal and international migratory flows among
Asian women and unravel the complex layers of needs,
networks and choices that come into play in
poverty-driven migration. Collectively, they focus on
structural and ideological factors forming the contexts
of migration, examining the issue of 'voluntariness' of
migration discussing those perspectives that give a
determining role to economic structures, thereby reducing
migration to a passive response; and conceptualizing
womenís migration not merely in terms of
degradation (or improvement) in their social marginality
but as a process of restructuring of gender relations. By
bringing together experiences from various countries in
the Asian region, the volume identifies patterns of
similarity and difference within the macro framework of
the capitalist world economy and the changing patterns of
labour relations. Women in Motion Women make up about half of the
world's migrants, so it is of little surprise that the
international migration of women has been attracting
significant attention in recent years. Most agree that
global restructuring increasingly forces a large number
of women in developing countries to migrate to richer
countries. But is poverty the only motivating factor? In
Women in Motion, Oishi examines the cross-national
patterns of international female migration in Asia.
Drawing on fieldwork in 10 countries - both
migrant-sending and migrant-receiving - she investigates
the differential impact of globalization, state policies,
individual autonomy and various social factors. This is
the first study of its kind to provide an integrative
approach to and a comparative perspective on female
migration flows from multiple countries. Dialogue and Difference This new collection brings together
groundbreaking essays by an international group of
feminist scholars and activists who stress the need to
build coalitions across the usual North/South, East/West
divides in order to challenge the dominant paradigms that
drive corporate globalization. Taking difference, rather
than similarity, to be the basis for effective
anti-imperial feminist theory and practice, the authors
show how dialogues between seemingly opposing views can
provide the basis for new conceptual frameworks in the
struggle for social justice and social change. These
dialogues among womenís movements bridge profound
differences in historical, economic and political
circumstance, language, culture and fundamental world
visions. Such differences are welcomed by contributors as
practical resources, rather than as obstacles, in
feminist challenges to corporate globalization. Globalization and Feminist
Activism In this compelling and
comprehensive overview, the author explores
trans-national 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 women and men of different races,
classes, ethnicities and nationalities have been produced
and contested over the past two centuries of capitalist
development. Through the use of both historical and
contemporary examples, Hawkesworth demonstrates how women
have forged international networks and alliances to
address specific gender issues beyond the borders of the
nation-state, crafting policies to mitigate pressing
abuses and devising alternatives to liberal and
neo-liberal agendas. Analysing innovative feminist
tactics to produce global change, the book carefully
traces the structural forces that permeate and constrain
transnational feminist activism and provides critical new
insights into the gendered nature of the global
system. ****************************************************************************************** RESOURCES This section is a compilation of
free resources on issues of women, economics,
globalization, trade and employment/labor available over
the Internet: 1. Trade-Finance Linkages and
Gender: Implications to Asian Women, 2006 2. Gender and Trade Cutting Edge
Pack, 2006 An accessible overview of gender as
a vital factor in the complex relationship between trade,
growth and development, this publication highlights the
crucial need to ensure that trade liberalization supports
the gender equality agenda and that it does not undermine
women. The packet outlines the key arguments and
approaches with regards to this topic, provides a brief
history of regional and global trade agreements, explores
the gendered impacts of trade agreements in several
sectors (including agriculture, intellectual property and
services) and details approaches to gender and trade with
regards to development. It is available in English,
Spanish and French and is accompanied by a collection of
supporting resources and a second short publication,
In Brief, on this topic. Download your own copy:
http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports_gend_CEP.html#trade 3. Globalization, Economic
Policy and Employment: Poverty & Gender Implications,
2006 4. Gender and Migration in Arab
States: The Case of Domestic Workers, 2004 Domestic workers, the majority of
whom are women, constitute a large portion of today's
migrant worker population. While much of their work
remain invisible in national statistics and national
labor legislation, this study presents a regional
overview of the state of women domestic migrant workers
in Arab states and reveals practices and patterns that
are key causes of their vulnerability. In addition, it
presents country studies of domestic migrant workers in
Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates and
outlines effective strategies to improve the situation of
these women. 5. Gender and Urban Social
Movements: Womenís Community Responses to
Restructuring and Urban Poverty 6. Gender Inequality in a
Globalizing World, 2005 7. The Story Behind the Numbers:
Women and Employment in Central and Eastern Europe and
the Western Commonwealth of Independent States,
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Globalization, State Policies and Labor Migration in
Asia
Feminisms Challenge GlobalizationMainstreaming Gender in
Debt and Development Resource Management
A Handbook for Debt Practitioners and Gender
Advocates
Dinesh Dodhia and Tina Johnson
2005. 160 pages. ISBN 0-85092-776-5. WE758.
US$22.50
Mary K. Zimmerman, Jacquelyn S. Litt and Christine E.
Bose
2006. 416 pages. ISBN 0-80475-324-5. WE771.
US$24.95
Sadhna Arya and Anupama Roy (Eds.)
2006. 260 pages. ISBN 0-76193-459-6. WE787.
US$26.95
Globalization, State Policies and Labor Migration in
Asia
Nana Oishi
2005. 264 pages. ISBN 0-80474-638-9. WE770.
US$21.95
Feminisms Challenge Globalization
Marguerite Waller and Sylvia Marcos (Eds.)
2005. 304 pages. ISBN 1-4039-6764-4. WE784.
US$26.95
Mary E. Hawkesworth
2006. 230 pages. ISBN 0-7425-3783-8. WE779.
US$24.95
International Gender and Trade Network - Asia
(IGTN)
While the impact of regional and global trade agreements
are sweeping in their scope, they vary based on an
assortment of factors including gender, occupation and
class. Constructed from the perspective that
trade-policies are not gender-blind in their effects,
this literacy package consists of seven critical modules
that educate the reader about gender and its linkages
with trade, finance, poverty reduction, micro-finance and
migrant remittances. The resource pack is available in
English, Spanish, Portuguese and French and is the 6th
such comprehensive pack produced by IGTN-Asia.
Find out more at: http://www.igtn.org/page/708/1
BRIDGE
International Labor Organization
Taking stock of recent literature and existing empirical
evidence regarding gender and economic growth, policies,
employment and poverty, this study attempts to analyze
the overall impact of globalization and macroeconomic
policies on employment and poverty trends. It
demonstrates how the labor market and the world of work
in general are clearly sex-disaggregated and emphasizes
the importance of analyzing the impact of macroeconomic
policies on growth, employment and poverty reduction with
specific consideration to gender. The study also
demonstrates how different aspects of macroeconomic
policies affect women's and men's work differently.
Read more at:
http://www.eldis.org/cf/search/disp/docdisplay.cfm?doc=DOC22656&resource=f1gender
International Labor Organization
A copy of this study is available at:
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/gender/genderresources.details?p_lang=en&p_resource_id=512&p_
category=NEW&p_str=SELECT%20column_list%20%20FROM%20resources%20res%20
WHERE%20published_flag='Y'%20%20AND%20inter_intranet_code=DECODE
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%20%20AND%20date_of_entry%20%3E%20(sysdate-30)%20%20
ORDER%20BY%20date_of_entry%20DESC
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
(UNRISD)
This paper addresses the gender dimensions of women's
community action in the context of economic restructuring
and urban poverty. Divided into three sections, the first
section addresses conceptual issues related to gender and
community action and serves to contextualize the case
studies presented in latter sections. The second section
analyses three examples of womenís community
action (neighborhood, anti-violence and housing) and the
gender implications for state policy, while the
concluding section addresses the strategic implications
of women's community action for
community development and broader policy processes.
Find out more at:
http://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website/document.nsf/(httpPublications)/
C59D935EC5987D6180256B65004FF007?OpenDocument
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
Emphasis on market-friendly macroeconomic and development
strategies in recent years has done little to promote
greater gender equality. This paper argues that the
example of East Asia states, which recognized their
position as "late industrializers," relied on a
managed-market approach with the state that employed a
wide variety of policy instruments to promote
industrialization. Nevertheless, while Asian growth was
rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender
equality. A concentration of women in mobile export
industries that face severe competition from other
low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and
inhibits closure of gender-wage gaps. Gender-equitable
macroeconomic and development policies are thus required,
including financial market regulation, regulation of
trade and investment flows, and gender-sensitive public
sector spending.
Download this working paper at:
http://www.levy.org/default.asp?view=publications_view&pubID=105350606e7
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
The report analyses trends in women's and men's labor
force participation during the transition to a
market-oriented economy in 18 countries in Eastern Europe
and assesses their implications for the economic security
of both women and men. By framing the analysis within the
social, political and economic context of this
transition, the study highlights several areas of
inquiry, including changes in the status and wage levels
of public sector vs. private sector jobs, increase in
different forms of informal employment, and the
distribution of women and men across them. It illustrates
the variety of ways in which women's economic security
has declined following the collapse of state socialism
and outlines specific policy measures that need to be
taken to improve the disadvantaged position of women in
the labor market.
Read all about it at:
http://www.unifem.org/resources/item_detail.php?ProductID=66
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