Women, globalization and fragmentation in the developing world /
Women, globalisation and fragmentation in the developing world
edited by Haleh Afshar, Stephanie Barrientos.
- xi, 230 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women, globalization and fragmentation / Fractioned states and negotiated boundaries : gender and law in India / Right-wing mobilization of women in India : hindutva's willing performers / Impact of global and the reconstruction of local Islamic ideology, and an assessment of its role in shaping feminist politics in post-revolutionary Iran / Informal sector and the conservative consensus : a case of fragmentation in Egypt / Women-headed households : global orthodoxies and grassroots realities / Women, industrialization and the environment in Indonesia / Gender and the global food chain : a comparative study of Chile and the UK / Women's work in changing labour markets : the case of Thailand in the 1980s / Health education for women as a liberatory process? An example from Tajikistan / Why rural technologies fail to meet the needs of Nigerian women : evidence from Hausa women's groups in Kano State / Haleh Afshar and Stephanie Barrientos -- Shirin M. Rai -- Jahnavi Phalkey -- Haleh Afshar -- Noha El-Mikawy -- Sylvia Chant -- Ines Smyth -- Stephanie Barrientos and Diane Perrons -- Rachel Kurian -- Colette Harris -- Sintiki Tarfa.
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