Wages of Empire Neoliberal Policies, Repression, and Women's Poverty [Hardcover]

Corporate globalization has intensified in recent years, taking a terrible toll on the lives of ordinary women in the global North and South. This book investigates the related processes of neoliberal economic restructuring and increased militarization, tracking policy and its enforcement to its impact on low-income women. This interdisciplinary volume provides rich analyses of the oppressive working and living conditions of urban and rural women, rightward shifts in public policies, and women's resistance to these developments.PART I: The Policies and Ideologies of Neoliberal Globalization Introduction Chapter 1: The Vicious Cycle of AIDS, Poverty, and Neoliberalism Bernardo Useche and Amalia L. Cabezas Chapter 2: In Her Name: The Gender Order of Global Poverty Management Ananya Roy Chapter 3: Under the Western Eyes of Fashion: Marie Claire's Construction of Global Feminism Jennifer Lynn Stoever PART II: Impacts of Neoliberal Policy and Ideology: Case Studies Chapter 4: Tea's Fortunes and Famines: Global Capital, Women Workers, and Survival in Indian Plantation Country Piya Chatterjee Chapter 5: Macroeconomics and Microentrepreneurs: Comparing Two Island Nations' Responses to Neoliberalism and Its Impact on Women's Lives Marina Karides Chapter 6: Politicians, Think Tanks, and the Global Promotion of the Wisconsin Model of Welfare Reform Ellen Reese Chapter 7: Service Provisioning as Political Activity: Struggles for Citizenship in Britain's Declining Welfare State Tracy Fisher PART III: Laboring Under Corporate Globalization: Case Studies Chapter 8: Neoliberalism, Globalization, and the International Division of Care Joya Misra and Sabine N. Merz Chapter 9: The Tortilla Behemoth: Sexualized Despotism and Women's Resistance in the Transnational Mexican Tortilla Factory Carolina Bank Munoz Chapter 10: Roses, Thorns, and Seven Dollars a Day: Women Workers in Colombia's Export Flower Industry Cynthia Mellon Chapter lSç