Beschrijving van de gevolgen van globalisering op het leven van vrouwen in de derde wereld. Bevat: Introduction: women, globalization and fragmentation / door Haleh Afshar en Stephanie Barrientos: Fractioned states and negotiated boundaries: gender and law in India / door Shirin M. Rai: Right-wing mobilization of women in India: Hindutva's willing performers / door Jahnavi Phalkey: The impact of global and the reconstruction of local islamic ideology, and an assessment of its role in shaping feminist politics in post-revolutionary Iran / door Haleh Afshar: The informal sector and the conservative consensus: a case of fragmentation in Egypt / door Noha El-Mikawy: Women-headed households: global orthodoxies and grassroots realities / door Sylvia Chant: Women, industrialization and the environment in Indonesia / door Ines Smyth: Gender and the global food chain: a comparative study of Chile and the UK / door Stephanie Barrientos en Diane Perrons: Women's work in changing labour markets: the case of Thailand in the 1980s / door Rachel Kurian: Health education for women as a liberatory process?: an example from Tajikistan / door Colette Harris: Why rural technologies fail to meet the needs of Nigerian women: evidence from Hausa women's groups in Kano state / door Sintiki Tarfa.
Exploring three key domains, this book presents different perspectives from gender-focused economics and social research. It covers marriage and women's position within the household: the options available to women outside of marriage and in the context of their community: and overarching discriminatory laws and cultural norms.