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Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are multitudes of women whose journeys go unnoticed. Each year, millions leave third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor results in an odd displacement, in which the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones-easing a 'care deficit' in rich countries, while creating one back home. Confronting a range of topics from the fate of Vietnamese mail-order brides to the importation of Mexican nannies in Los Angeles, Global Woman offers an original look at a world increasingly shaped by mass migration and economic exchange. Collected and with an Introduction by bestselling social critics Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, this groundbreaking anthology reveals a new era in which the main resource extracted from developing nations is no longer gold or silver, but love.
Customer Reviews:
Thought provoking but a passive observer with no recommendations.......2006-01-01
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild, Metropolitan Books, Holt & Co, 2002.
Most of us are well aware of the patterns of illegal immigration which bring numerous undocumented workers to the US and other developed countries from less developed countries. Those who work in agriculture, lawn care, and low paying jobs like janitors are well known. This book takes a detailed look at female migrant workers. These include maids, nannies, nurses, those who care for the young and elderly and extends to those kidnaped or sold into the sex slave trade and those who seek marriageable partners in developed countries to obtain visas. A single mother can earn enough in a developed country as a nurse, a nanny or as a prostitute to leave her children behind in the care of a relative and pay for their education and daycare. This process gives her children access to a better education that can lift them out of poverty.
This book is a collection of essays authored with assistance of researchers from numerous third world countries. The sociological aspect is consistent with Ehrenreich's usual works--always rich with social commentary. This time she functions as editor and provides one chapter from her earlier experience at Merry Maids as told in Nickeled and Dimed. Hochschild is professor of sociology at Berkeley.
The major migratory pathways for women are described generally as from south to north. In the US, African American women accounted for 60% of domestics in the 1940s. They have now been replaced by Latinas mostly from Mexico and Central America. In Europe migrants come from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. In the oil rich Mideast, many come from Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Phillippines, and Sri Lanka. In France, they now come from Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria; in Italy, from Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Cape Verde. Generally, migrants have replaced those who once came from poor rural areas of their own countries.
Several chapters on nannies and their problems are especially informative. The hours are long, overtime is seldom paid, time off it minimal, workers are sometimes farmed out to other families, or required to travel with the family on "holiday." The children often become attached to the nanny as part of the family, but this can result in jealousy on the part of birth mothers. Many nannies leave abruptly after an argument.
Various aspects of the sex trade are explored. In the Dominican Republic, married women may voluntarily go to the larger town of Sosua to work as prostitutes in the sex tourist industry. This good money is used to pay the family bills, but husbands sometimes spend the funds on alcoholism and gambling when the wife is away. Some prostitutes hope for a marriage proposal from German tourists. In Thailand, in the less prosperous mountain districts, daughters once were sold into sex slavery when the economic survival of the family required it. Now, rapid industrialization and rising standard of living have created major growth in sex tourism. Industrial workers have more money to spend on prostitutes. Mountain Thais now are more willing to sell their daughters to fund the purchase of electronics and other consumer goods.
In Viet Nam, the war killed many males and a disproportionate number of males were able to migrate to the US after the war. This has resulted in an over abundance of females. Educated females become un-marriageable. Arranged marriages with US citizens is one solution to this problem.
This book provides perspective on another aspect of the woman's rights movement in developing countries. Apparently several previous books have issued, but this subject has received little attention in the overall scheme of immigration policy. I saw no discussion of how these problems should be addressed. Presumably better laws are needed as well as a willingness to enforce existing laws in the case of the sex slavery and sex tourism. Different solutions seem appropriate in the case of licensed nurses who are aided in getting visas to fill a real shortage. The presence of undocumented migrants working as nannies and domestics is yet another problem. Perhaps different solutions are needed for each group. Mixing all of them in a single volume confuses the issues. The book lacks the impact it could have had.
This book is nicely done and thought provoking, but the absence of proposed solutions is a major omission. A collection of charts provide details of the female migrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
Fact-filled, careful study.......2004-05-09
In brief essays, the authors present generally unbiased academic discussions of the globalization of female workers. Though hardly a new phenomenon, it has dramatically increased in the last 50 years and is a topic that is deserving of this type of examination. The topics are clearly delineated between domestic workers, cheap labor and the sex trade - however, there are unfortunates whose experiences range from one to the other out of necessity, desperation or coercion. This harsh reality of the vulnerability of these women is discussed with jargon-free, scholarly precision. Excellent for libraries, research and the well-read individual.
Good Overview of Female Migrant Workers.......2003-04-12
...Nevertheless, this book gives the reader valuable insight into the impact and opinions of women migrant workers in the service trades. All of the anthologized authors write in an accessible style free of academic jargon. I was particularly interested in the articles which did not have an American viewpoint and which presented the views of the women (and occasionally men) involved. For example, in various essays we get to meet Dominican women in the sex trade hoping to form relationships with European men; a college-educated Vietnamese women entering into an arranged marriage with an immigrant man holding an unskilled job in the U.S.; Filipina household workers laughing about the rules proposed by prospective Hong Kong employers; and a Sri Lankan man taking over the traditional woman's role to assist migrant relatives working in Saudi Arabia.
There are some gaps here, such as the lack of first-person narratives and the views of Eastern European women working in Western Europe, but no anthology can be all-inclusive. This book is a good start and will be an intersting learning experience for most readers.
nannies and sex workers in same title is offensive.......2003-03-05
As the mother of five that relied on childcare during the many years of single parenting I think we tend to concentrate too much on the elite and their need for childcare. The notion that this childcare contributes to the foreign exchange is a little off base when in reality it contributes to an underground economy because the salaries are mostly off the books and taxes are not paid in any form. Safety issues also arise when you consider that most of the illegeal aliens caring for our children have never had childhood immunizations, and refuse the TB test. This may sound unimportant and nit picking but the reality is diseases we thought were erradicated like whooping cough can be traced to the unimmunized worker. Leaving your children behind to take care of mine is something we as a nation should give more thought about.
Customer Reviews:
Powerful book that delves deep into Human Trafficking!!!.......2007-09-26
I read this book while on vacation and once I started reading I could not stop. I read the entire book within 24 hours! It is simply amazing and quite powerful.
In shocking detail the author describes as to what happens to people mostly young teenage women from Eastern Europe that are victims of sex trafficking. They are manipulated and tricked into going to other countries promising a future in a new job that is completely unrelated to prostitution, e.g., waitressing, modelling, travel agency work, etc. However, once they are at their destination, they are told they need to pay for their trip expenses and cannot leave until they have paid off their debt- in many instances, they die due to disease, murder, or simply abandoned because they are not marketable anymore. Should any of these women oppose, they are usually beaten, raped (often), or tortured until they have succumbed to their pimps and in many instances, murdered.
To suggest that most women have a choice in prostitution is simply naive and moronic. What's worse, in many instances most women are forced into it and in the instances where they are not forced to become prostitutes, it is either that or starvation. People who advocate for prostitution should take a step back and attempt to analyze it for what prostitution really is- exploitation for money.
More amazing is U.S. government complicity in human trafficking in Bosnia via the Department of Defense's subcontractor- DynCorp, Inc. In many instances, Dyncorp employees wer buying and selling teenage girls often leaving them to live in cages or squalor. Quite disturbing but not unheard of!!!
This book is a masterpiece narrative on human trafficking!!! You will be shocked and you will or want to cry. But nevertheless, a traumatic narrative that must be told about human trafficking and its impact on the human population in the 21st century.
Shock and Appall tactics, but read with open mind.......2007-07-06
On comencing to read this book, I was expecting to discover the full extent of what has been called a modern form of slavery and, naturally, to be shocked and appalled.
Actually, upon finishing this book, I was left rather wondering how feminists can expolit real suffering and turn it into a wedge to pursue their own sexual ends. And, if is probably likely, that the evil of sexual trafficking does exist, albeit on a much smaller scale than rants like this book and the general media and feminists would have you believe, that is a shame.
Whilst proclaiming to be an expose of the kidnapping and forcing into prostitution of East European women, the author wastes no opportunity to make his extremist objections to prostitution clear, though (as is the modus operandi of feminists) cleverly splicing together descriptions of real abuse (ie. sexual trafficking) with moral judgements on the ultimate object of rage (ie.prostitution in general). Most accounts of individual 'Natashas' are interwoven with ridiculous and judgemental statements such as 'how could anyone believe that a woman would want to have sex with strangers willingly?'.
Such dishonest tactics and absurd generalisations should chill anyone who approaches this book with an open-mind, and leave one to question every single statement and alleged fact it contains. It appears to a feminist, and to the author of this book, that no woman would willingly trade her body for cash, and if she does so, she is in fact a victim nethertheless and clearly in denial about her status as such. To repeat, this simply renders the book useless as an objective account of sexual trafficking.
Try to read this book with an open mind. Note that before the last soccer world cup was held in Germany, feminists were screaming that 40,000 women would be trafficked unless prostitution was immediately outlawed. Prostitution was not outlawed, not even for the duration of the world cup. The police later revealed that 5 cases of prostitution linked to human trafficing had been found during the competition, 1/8000 of the level that feminists had predicted. And yes, it is possible that a woman from Eastern Europe might choose of her own volition to seek a better standard of living by having sex with strangers in London or Paris, just as millions of them have chosen of their own free will to come to London or Paris to work 12 hours a day in soulless factories for 1/100th of the money.
"Freedom", grinding poverty, corruption, and dregs of humanity make life hell for 100,000s of women.......2007-03-14
I read enough of this disturbing book to get the basic premise: Women in poor counties are basically a commodity to used, abused, and discarded when no longer profitable.
The free world rejoiced when iron curtain of the Evil Empire came down. Now Eastern Europe has McDonald's, a new found "freedom" that caused the Soviet Union to collapse, and a burgeoning mafia that is so virulent they are often better armed than the police, and in other cases they are one in the same or they control the police. This is evidenced by the fact that police refuse to do anything about the large scale kidnapping and forced prostitution of women and girls. Often it goes on in plain sight of the police. After seeing film footage and hearing stories about how people lived under the Communist regime I wouldn't have thought it couldn't have gotten much worse but apparently I was wrong. It certainly doesn't appear to have improved any.
Trafficking in women is apparently widespread and quite lucrative. Particularly daunting is how many of the women were lured into the snares of pimps by the treachery of family members and so called friends or pillars of the community. In some rural communities in Eastern European countries the abduction of young girls is so widespread parents won't let their daughters walk to school (cars are something we take for granted in the US). In several cases these young women are university educated but there are no jobs for them in their respective countries. In one case (I saw on TV) a woman from Moldova who was kidnapped was lured with the promise of a clerk job making a whopping US$100 a month!
All this left me wondering about the demand, without which this modern day slave trade would cease to exist. Descriptions of women beaten to a pulp, locked down in filthy warehouses, and guarded by thugs might cause one to wonder just what kind of creeps would "patronize" such an "establishment." Apparently they are nice normal men with respectable jobs, often with NGO's and peacekeeping forces, and no doubt the local police; in other words the very people who should be trying to help these women.
The author doesn't really give a lot of information that hasn't already been on TV. He also doesn't offer any hope as far as what any of us in the US and other wealthy nations can do to end this abomination. This book left me depressed but evermore grateful that I live in America where there are plenty of jobs, even jobs that most Americans don't want; the kind that the Natashas would consider themselves lucky to have.
well researched and very sad.......2006-02-27
This is a very informative book and one of the saddest I have read. The sad plight of Eastern European women in the sex trade has reached monumental proportions. It doesn't look like there is anything to stop the trade unless politicians seriously get involved. I was very moved by the personal stories of these women. Malarek did the right thing by investigating hot spots himself in various countries. Well written and doesn't drag. Engaging and honest.
Book Description
In this engrossing and original book, Leslie Salzinger takes us with her into the gendered world of Mexico's global factories. Her careful ethnographic work, personal voice, and sophisticated analysis capture the feel of life inside the maquiladoras and make a compelling case that transnational production is a gendered process. The research grounds contemporary feminist theory in an examination of daily practices and provides an important new perspective on globalization.
Customer Reviews:
The exploitation of gender for profit.......2005-06-25
"Genders in Production" by Leslie Salzinger is a groundbreaking study about production processes in Mexico's maquiladoras. This fascinating book should appeal to academics, feminists, labor activists and others who may be interested in learning about the dynamic processes by which globalization exploits gender for profit. Importantly, Ms. Salzinger's keen insight and analysis helps open the door to imagining a world where gender stereotypes could be transcended and labor rights accorded more respect.
Ms. Salzinger's meticulous ethnographic work at four maquila factories helps her obtain an insider's view of how sexual identities struggle for recognition and reward on the shop floor. The author discusses how the "trope of feminity" deludes investors into locating factories in places where it is believed that female laborers will passively accept routinized work for low wages. However, as the facts on the ground depart from this fantasy, the struggle between capital and labor is observed to be gendered but nonetheless highly variable and contextual.
Ms. Salzinger dedicates one chapter apiece to her experiences at four manufacturing plants in northern Mexico. She cleverly assigns pseudonyms to describe the salient characteristics of each plant. For example, "Andromex" is a factory where male and female workers become almost androgenous through the development of similar work habits; "Anarchomex" is noteworthy for its embattled masculine workers conflicting both amongst themselves and with female co-workers to create nearly anarchic conditions of production; and so on. The writing in these chapters is vivid, engaging and intelligent, imparting glimpses into both the worker's daily struggle for survival and the logic of the managerial systems that controls and exploits these workers.
I found it interesting (if not disheartening) to learn that capital's strategy of dividing the working class by gender has proven to be remarkably effective. By redefining production as primarily women's work, employers can pay below-subsistance wages and offer scant benefits, job enrichment or advancement opportunities. As made clear through Ms. Salzinger's field research, these diminished career expectations deprive the working class of Mexico with the hope of achieving a better life and are frequently used as a threat to drive down wages in the U.S. and other industrialized nations.
In the final chapter, Ms. Salzinger draws on feminist writings to connect the trope of feminity with cultural norms that tend to devalue women through their association with domesticity. By discovering that gendered meanings in the workplace can be flexible, however, the author suggests that subjectivity may be contestable. If structures of power are a "concatenation of common-sense understandings" about women's perceived role in the home, she argues, then the reality of changed meanings forged in the crucible of workplace production may point the way in time to new, empowered definitions.
I highly recommend this book to demanding readers who may be interested in an original and thought-provoking thesis about gender and globalization.
Book Description
One million people are trafficked into the sex industry each year. In this timely and provocative study, Kathryn Farr documents the macro and micro impact of trafficking women and children into this industry on a global scale. Farr looks not only at the victims themselves, but also at the sex trade’s main players, organized crime structure, economic conditions, and role in which various militaries perpetuate its demand. Sex Trafficking can be incorporated into a variety of courses in sociology, social problems, culture and sexuality, history, and women’s studies.
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On the black market, they're the third most profitable com- modity, after illegal weapons and drugs-the only difference being that these goods are human, though to their handlers they are wholly expendable. They are women and girls, some as young as 12, from all over the Eastern bloc, where sinister networks of organized crime have become entrenched in the aftermath of the collapse of Communist regimes. In Israel, they're called Natashas, whether they're actually from Russia, Bosnia, the Czech Republic, or Ukraine, no matter what their real names may be. They're lured into vans and onto airplanes with promises of jobs as waitresses, mod-els, nannies, dishwashers, maids, and dancers. But when they arrive at their destinations, they are stripped of their identifi-cation, and their nightmare begins. They are sold into pros-titution and kept enslaved; those who resist are beaten, raped, and sometimes killed as examples. They often have nowhere to turn; in many cases, the men who should be res- cuing them-from immigration officials to police officers and international peacekeepers-are among their aggressors.
Customer Reviews:
A brilliant call to action.......2006-12-21
The fall of the soviet union opened up eastern europe to one things: money for sex. The rotten Soviet economy caused the people to be impoverished but at the same time it had offered them education so they were not willing to live a meager life, as many do in Africa and elsehwere, then the state had made them 'open minded' and thus there was no traditional soceity to take care of young women and support them, so they were lured by jobs abroad and sold into slavery. PRimarily they went to Western Europe where "open democratic progressive" soceity tolerated the enslavement of more than a million prositutes. These women were kept chained up 'servicing' "enlightened" europeans, the same europeans who condemn 'human rights abuses' and they serviced these Germans and French and other europeans who couldnt rape 12-15 year olds in their own countries. In addition these sex slaves were bought and sold by NATO and UN troops in Bosnia, which became a center in the trade and traffiking in women in the 1990s after it became a colony of NATO and the UN.
This is a brilliant book, heartrending and tragic. However despite the fact that it exposes the role of the UN and western europeans in the sex-salve trade in eastern european women it doesnt shed light on either the origins of the illness, Communism, or the more racist and colonialistic aspects of this. Western Europeans, who pretend to beleive in human rights, are overwhelmingly the clients who purchase these slaves' services and it is also the West that has created this and tolerated it. The same west that likes to lecture these eastern european nations on 'democracy'. It should have been pointed out the blatent hypocrisy that takes place whereby Western europe colonized Eastern europe to enslave its women and literally rape it.
A tragic story.
Seth J. Frantzman
Must read!.......2006-04-24
This is a great book - eye-popping, informative, detailed description of the issue. Personal insight and interviews with TOP LEVEL players. Clear outline of U.S. & International attempts and failings to deal with issue - but also straightforward suggestions. A MUST READ - excellent resource.
Excellent discussion of the Annual State Department Report "Trafficking in Persons" and associated tier assignments.
A Must-Read on a Modern Holocaust.......2006-04-20
Just as when Auschwitz and Treblinka were in operation, few people today are paying attention to the mass annihilation of countless hundreds of thousands of women and girls in the worldwide rape mills. These females are the seed corn of struggling Eastern European nations: 1 in 5 has a university degree, and most of the others are at least trying to get a university education. They answer bogus job offers which lead to sex slavery in hopes of having enough money to finish their higher education. Instead, they end up dead, insane, crippled or in halfway houses far from home. Only when this issue becomes a drumbeat among humane citizens in all informed and educated countries will concrete action ever be taken to stop this enormous destruction of human lives and potential.
Despite what P. Pray said about Malarek's book, it is well-researched. Malarek travelled extensively and interviewed numerous people in the Czech Republic, including the Czech/German border area which is apparently an entire region given over to mob-controlled sex slavery, heavily guarded by many on-the-take Czech cops. P. Pray is probably in the 'Natasha' business himself.....think about this book, and the victims it describes, the next time you hear a guy making veiled leering comments about his trip to Prague/Berlin/Amsterdam/Munich/Moscow/Dubai/Greece/Istanbul/Bangkok/Manila/Vegas/Atlantic City.....read this book and you'll realize that when Anne Frank said that people were generally good at heart, that she'd spent too much time in the attic. As an Army officer, I was especially shocked and saddened by the descriptions of girls being repeatedly and routinely raped, traded and sold by US servicemen and contractors in Bosnia, Kosovo and South Korea, with the knowledge and complicity of senior US commanders. I had heard soldiers making sniggering comments about "juicy bars" in the Balkans and Korea; now I know what they were referring to. And this is the Army/Marine Corps full of self-styled "God-fearing Christians" which fights for "freedom" in Iraq and elsewhere?! "How can Satan cast out Satan?" If God punishes the perpetrators of slavery and industrialized rape, then the US and many other states are in for some serious retribution......
Given the ubiquity of the governmental, bureaucratic and NGO corruption described by Malarek, the only probable solutions to the sex slave trade are 1) general social awareness of the crimes within countries able to press politically for solutions, as well as source nations of trafficked women; 2) AGGRESSIVE acts like economic sanctions by states like the US against nations like Germany, Greece, Italy, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, et al which are either exporting their females for sex slavery, or importing them; and 3) the "Medellin solution": emulation of the Columbians who destroyed Pablo Escobar's criminal drug-trafficking empire by tracking and executing large numbers of those connected with the drug trade which undermined Columbian society. Widespread resistance networks of victims' families, their friends and sympathizers, and patriotic citizens in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, the Baltic states and other afflicted countries, ready and eager to kill pimps, procurers, mob accountants and bankers, as well as those who knowingly abuse sex slaves, would dramatically gain world attention to the trade. Especially if American johns were the ones being shot or stabbed!
"A gun not words is needed" --Ilya Ehrenburg, after the liberation of Maidanek extermination camp, 1944
Interesting reading.......2006-01-15
Marek acted as an editor in the compilation of information widely available on the Internet or public sources regarding the sex slave trade. The book was easy to read and can be completed in a short period of time. Marek did a good job at outlining the scale of the problem, however stop short of discussing how the global planet should address the issue.
Human Trafficking Essential.......2005-11-21
'The Natashas : Inside the New Global Sex Trade' is certainly not the first book to expose the international human slave trade, but it is essential reading all the same. Human trafficking, or "trafficking in persons," as it is called by the US State Department, is a complex and revolting issue. The more we learn about it, the more we are aghast at such a disgusting crime. Our hearts break for the victims and despair under the weight of the overwhelming numbers involved. There are many books, some quite good, others less so, but most of them are out of date--predating The Natashas by many years. However, The Natashas is one of four recent books that stand above the rest. They are unquestionably accurate, moving and informative. Together, these four books are the essential beginning course in understanding human trafficking.
'The Natashas : Inside the New Global Sex Trade' offers a desperate truth about the victims, their experiences, dark and ugly. Not an easy book to read, but an essential part of understanding the human cost of human trafficking.
This is the third book to read in understanding human trafficking. First, read 'Race Against Evil: The Secret Missions of the Interpol Agent Who Tracked the World's Most Sinister Criminals;' then 'Illicit : How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy;' followed by 'Woman, Child for Sale: The New Slave Trade in the 21st Century.'
Book Description
The
Second Edition of
Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective travels across geographic, cultural, and historical boundaries to explore the diversity of the world’s families—in family structure, processes, history, and social and environmental contexts. Editors Bron B. Ingoldsby and Suzanna D. Smith examine a full range of topics including family origin and universality, family functions, marital structure, kinship rules, comparative research methods, family development, marriage adjustment, parenting, divorce, and aging. This comprehensive text increases students’ recognition of and respect for cultural diversity as it influences family life; meets educators’ needs for a comparative family text; and contributes to the development of new ways of thinking about families that highlights culture and context.
“The editors, both qualified scholars with a comparative perspective, have been successful in finding well-known authors for the various chapters. Both theoretical and methodological issues are dealt with in a nuanced and qualified manner…. The book is to be highly recommended to students, faculty, and libraries.”
—Jan Trost, Professor Emeritus,
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
"The strength of this book is its comparative approach under several theoretic frameworks… This book appears to be the most comprehensive study of global families.” —Heying Jenny Zhan,
Georgia State University
New to the Second Edition:
- Includes new chapters focussing on the Middle East and Pacific regions to introduce students to the variations in family life across such diverse areas
- Provides updated information about families around the world by expanding the contents to incorporate recent trends in family life
- Discusses increasingly salient topics that are rarely found in comparative family texts, such as social inequality as manifested in gender stratification, oppression of certain ethnic and cultural groups, and poverty
- Includes student exercises intended to increase student awareness and appreciation of diversity
Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective is an excellent textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying Sociology and Family Studies in courses such as Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Comparative Family Organization, Global and Diverse Families, World Families, and Families in Comparative Perspective.
Book Description
The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities is a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present.
The essays in this highly creative collection are organized in pairs that alternate in focus between femininity and masculinity, between subjects traditionally associated with feminism (such as family life) and those rarely considered from a gendered point of view (like banditry). The chapters provide a wealth of interesting detail on such varied topics as court cases involving widows and homosexuals; ideal spouses of early-twentieth-century radicals; changing images of prostitutes; the masculinity of qigong masters; sexuality in the era of reform; and the eroticization of minorities. While most of the essays were specifically written for this volume, a few are reprinted as a testament to their enduring value.
Exploring the central role of gender as an organizing principle of Chinese social life, Chinese Femininities/ Chinese Masculinities is an innovative reader that will spark new debate in a wide range of disciplines.
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Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, Ara Wilson captures the intimate effects of the global economy in this vibrant city.
The Intimate Economies of Bangkok is a multifaceted portrait of the intertwining of identities, relationships, and economics during Bangkok's boom years. Using innovative case studies of women's and men's participation in a range of modern markets--department stores, go-go bars, a popular downtown mall, a telecommunications company, and the direct sales corporations Amway and Avon--Wilson chronicles the powerful expansion of capitalist exchange into further reaches of Thai society. She shows how global economies have interacted with local systems to create new kinds of lifestyles, ranging from "tomboys" to corporate tycoons to sex workers.
Combining feminist theory with classic anthropological understandings of exchange, this historically grounded ethnography maps the reverberations of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity at the hub of Bangkok's modern economy.
Book Description
Forsaken Females describes the varied types of brutalization women experience through the life course, as well as historical and theoretical perspectives of global violence against women. The book illuminates the diverse ideologies and cultural conditions that condone and perpetuate the brutality that victimizes women. The discussion is structured around the experiences of women who describe their personal victimization. Each chapter concludes with examples of promising policies and practices developed to address and reduce violence perpetrated against women.
Book Description
"Speaking Out" grew from an international peace project addressing issues of war, from personal effects of combat to institutional factors shaping armed conflicts. Drawing on the Sierra Leone civil war, this curriculum bridges local and global, placing gripping personal stories in an international landscape and highlighting creative capacities that survive war. Stories, games and role-playing are interwoven with lessons on colonialism, West African agricultural economy, international banking, diamond and arms trades and peace-building projects. The book includes projects for the classroom and beyond. It provides a method for instruction on war and peace, with options for high school or college use, and will be of interest to scholars in global studies, psychology, sociology, women's studies, communications and conflict resolution.
Customer Reviews:
Speaking Out for Others.......2007-08-09
Jan Haaken has committed her life to educating and helping others with a compassion that few offer in the field. Her research and work has opened a world to those who would not have found a voice. And it has opened a world to those who want to learn more about the world and the people in it. There is no easy look into the lives of women who suffer in Sierra Leone, Africa. Yet it brings each of us closer to understanding what is happening so far removed from our lives. Haaken and the others who worked on the book provide a unique look into the lives of women suffering from war and the effects of the global economy.
While the book is designed for collegiate study, it educates everyone who reads it. The personal testimonies give a poignant account of life that must be addressed. The exercises create an opportunity to think about the affects of a global economy that disregards many in lieu of profits.
Speaking Out is what we each must do after reading this book.
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