Globalization And Feminist Activism

Globalization is a gendered phenomenon, says Hawkesworth (political science and women’s and gender studies, Rutgers U.); it positions and affects men and women differently and produces new modes of gender power and disadvantage. She explores how globalization affects the lives of women within particular races, classes, ethnicities, and nationalities; and the power dynamics of gendering processes such as feminism that operate at great remove from the bodies of individual women and men to restructure social, economic, and political relations. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)