Women in a Globalizing World

Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace

Angela Miles

• Publisher: Inanna Publications
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781926708720
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Feminism & Feminist Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

Canadian and international authors offer ground-breaking work in this collection that brings together almost seventy articles by formative feminist writers, researchers, activists and visionaries to illuminate the profound globalizing processes of our time.Critical analyses of current globalization and possible alternatives are presented in the context of global feminist dialogue and activism since the 1980s. Together, the articles provide a comprehensive overview of the agenda and processes of neo-liberal globalization; women 's activist responses to the consequent environmental and social destruction; and visionary feminist alternatives and worldviews. As well as women 's studies courses, this collection will be an indispensable resource for teachers seeking globally-informed, gender-, race-, class-, and Indigenous- aware Canadian resources for the study of sociology, international development, environmental studies, political economy, women 's human rights, labour studies, social policy, social work, international relations, migration/immigration, violence, poverty, militarism, colonialism and post-colonialism, social movements, global feminisms, peace, community organizing, sustainability and alternative possibilities.

Table of contents

• Women in a Globalizing World - Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace
• Copyright Notice
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Feminist Analysis and Vision
• WOMEN’S ACTION AGENDA 21 - Preamble - Toward a Healthy Planet
• VANDANA SHIVA - Economic Globalization, Ecological Feminism and Earth Democracy
• EVA JOHNSON - An Open Letter - Native Culture and Environment
• SILVIA FEDERICI - Re-Enchanting the World - Technology, the Body and the Construction of the Commons
• ALDA FACIO - Confronting Globalization - Feminist Spirituality as Political Strategy
• MARIA MIES - Do We Need a New “Moral Economy”?
• FEMINISTS FOR A GIFT ECONOMY - Position Statement for a Peaceful World
• Part One - Neo-Liberal Globalization: Social and Environmental Costs
• JOYCE A. GREEN - Resistance is Possible
• PAT ARMSTRONG AND HUGH ARMSTRONG - Thinking Globally - Women, Work and Caring
• I. Restructuring/“Liberalization”
• SILVIA FEDERICI - The Global Crisis
• MARJORIE GRIFFIN COHEN, LAURELL RITCHIE, MICHELLE SWENARCHUCK AND LEAH VOSKO - GlobalizationSome Implications and Strategies for Women
• ROXANA NG - Freedom for Whom? - Globalization and Trade from the Standpoint of Garment Workers
• JANE STINSON - Why Privatization is a Women’s Issue
• MARCY COHEN AND MARJORIE GRIFFIN COHEN - The Politics of Pay Equity in B.C.’s Health Care System - The Role of Government, Multinational Corporations and Unions
• JANET MOSHER AND PAT EVANS - Welfare PolicyA Critical Site of Struggle for Women’s Safety
• DONNA BAINES - Women’s Occupational Health in Social Services - Stress, Violence and Workload
• KIM PATE - Advocacy, Activism and Social Change for Women in Prison
• II. Enclosure, Commodification and Theft
• ANA ISLA - The Politics of Sustainable Development - From Rio 1992 to Rio+20 in 2012 – A Subsistence View
• MARIAROSA DALLA COSTA - Some Notes on Neoliberalism, on Land and on the Food Question
• NANCY C. M. HARTSOCK - Women and/as Commodities - A Brief Meditation
• MARILYN WARING - The Invisibility of Women’s Work - The Economics of Local and Global “Bullshit”
• VANDANA SHIVA - The Seed and the Earth - The Colonization of Regeneration
• HELEN FORSEY - GMOs - Globalizing Male Omnipotence
• ANA ISLA - The Struggle for Clean Water and Livelihood - Canadian Mining in Costa Rica in the Era of Globalization
• WENDY MILNE - Changing Climate, Uncertain Future - Considering Rural Women in Climate Change Policies and Strategies
• iii. Displacement, Migration and Violence
• VANDANA SHIVA - Our Violent Economy is Hurting Women
• RATNA KAPUR - The “Other” Side of Globalization - The Legal Regulation of Cross-Border Movements
• AUDREY MACKLIN - Women as Migrants - Members in National and Global Communities
• PURA VELASCO - Migrant Workers Amidst Globalization
• KERRY PREIBISCH - Gender Transformative Odysseys - Tracing the Experiences of Transnational Migrant Women in Rural Canada1
• RICHARD POULIN - Globalization and the Sex Trade - Trafficking and the Commodification of Women and Children
• LEE LAKEMAN - Linking Violence and Poverty in Canadian Restructuring - The CASAC Report
• Part Two: Organizing for Another World
• JOAN GRANT-CUMMINGS - The Global Capitalist Economic Agenda - Impact on Women’s Human Rights
• JOYCE GREEN - Resistance is Necessary
• I. UN Decade for Women and Beyond
• DAWN - Development Crisis and Alternative Visions - Third World Women’s Perspectives
• JANICE WOOD WETZEL - The World’s Women Unite in Diversity - Report on Nairobi
• MARGARET FULTONP - eace is the Way to Peace - Peace Tent at Nairobi
• SARI TUDIVER - Women and Health - A Summary Report From the UN End of Decade for Women Conference held in Nairobi, Kenya, July 1985
• BONNIE KETTEL - Women’s Action Agenda 21 - New Approaches to Sustainable Development
• CHARLOTTE BUNCH, MALLIKA DUTT AND SUSANA FRIED - Beijing ’95A Global Referendum on the Human Rights of Women
• LINDA CHRISTIANSEN-RUFFMAN - Pages from BeijingA Women’s Creed and the NGO Declaration
• MARY SILLETT - Ensuring Indigenous Women’s Voices Are Heard - The Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women
• SHELAGH DAY - Women’s Sexual Autonomy - Universality, Sexual Rights and Sexual Orientation at the Beijing Conference
• KAREN PEDERSEN - Putting Agriculture on the Agenda - Representing Farm Women in Beijing
• II. Rights and Reform
• CHARLOTTE BUNCH - Feminism, Peace, Human Rights and Human Security
• MARILOU MCPHEDRAN - Creating Trialogue - Women’s Constitutional Activsim in Canada
• CYNTHIA D. STIRBYS - Gender-Based Analysis and Indigenous Worldviews
• CYNTHIA L. COOPER AND MARGIE KELLY - Life, Interrupted - Reproductive Damage from Chemical Pollutants – Alarm Growing Since Rio
• ESTHER THARAO AND NOTISHA MASSAQUOI - Black Women and HIV/AIDS - Contextualizing Their Realities, Their Silence and Proposing Solutions
• MARTHA FRIENDLY - Why Women Still Ain’t Satisfied - Politics and Activism in Canadian Child Care
• LIANNE MCTAVISH - Virtual Activism and the Pro-Choice Movement in Canada
• III. Alternatives and Resistance
• WANDA NANIBUSH - Idle No More - Strong Hearts of Indigenous Women’s Leadership
• SUNILA ABEYSEKARA - Racism, Ethnicity and Peace
• LEE LAKEMAN, ANGELA MILES AND LINDA CHRISTIANSEN-RUFFMAN - Feminist Statement on Guaranteed Living Income
• PATRICIA E. PERKINS - Social Diversity, Globalization, and Sustainability in Community-Based Economies
• MARTHA MCMAHON - Alternatives to Globalization - Women Small-Scale Farmers and Local Food Systems
• LESLEY MARPLE AND VICTORIA LATCHMORE - LGBTQ Activism - Small Town Social Change
• ANITA OLSEN HARPER - Is Canada Peaceful and Safe for Aboriginal Women?
• ANNETTE AURÉLIE DESMARAIS - Women Farm Leaders Speak Out About Resistance and Agrarian Activism
• WENDY MILNE - Women, Energy and Sustainability - Making Links, Taking Action
• STARHAWK - Why We Need Women’s Actions and Feminist Voices for Peace
• JENNY FOSTER - Tear Gas in UteroQuebec City
• JUDY REBICK - Occupy and Feminism
• MEGAN BOLER - Occupy Patriarchy - Will Feminism’s Fourth Wave Be a Swell or a Ripple?
• Index