Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ahmed, Fauzia Erfan

Titel

Gender and the Politics of Possibilities: Rethinking Globalization/Global Gender Issues in the New Millennium

Ist Teil von

• Feminist Formations, 2012, Vol.24 (2), p.205

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Desai provides empirical evidence in three case studies: cross-border traders in Africa; transnational feminists who work simultaneously at the United Nations, at the grass roots level, and at the World Social Forum (WSF); and modemmujers-Mexican women who bring information technology to rural women in Latin America. According to her, globalization is old, ancient even: migration, religion, and technology have encompassed the world in the past. [...]sections detract from its original thesis.