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The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization: Towards

1st Edition

The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization Towards "Embedded Liberalism"?

Edited By Shahra Razavi Copyright 2009
392 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

390 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

390 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In the last two decades public policies have reflected a drive for accelerated global economic integration ("globalization"), associated with greater economic liberalization. The outcomes have been largely disappointing, even in the estimate of their designers. Rural livelihoods have become more insecure, and the expected growth has rarely materialized. Insecurity is also etched into the growth... Read more

'Editor’s Introduction by Shahra Razavi

PART ONE: RURAL LIVELIHOODS UNDER LIBERALIZATION

Chapter 1: The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization Policies on African Agricultural Economies and Rural Livelihoods (Ann Whitehead)

Chapter 2: Gender and Agrarian Change in Latin America (Carmen Diana Deere)

Chapter 3: Understanding the Gendered Experience of Agrarian Change in an Era of Liberalisation: the Case of India (Cecile Jackson & Nitya Rao)

PART TWO: INFORMALIZATION AND FEMINIZATION

Chapter 4: Gender, Economic Liberalisation and the Informalization of Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa (Dzodzi Tsikata)

Chapter 5: Women and Work in a Neoliberal Age: The Case of Middle East and North Africa (Valentine Moghadam)

Chapter 6: Informalization and Women’s Workforce Participation: A Consideration of Recent Trends in Asia (Jayati Ghosh)

PART THREE: GENDERED MIGRATIONS

Chapter 7: Gendered Migrations and Sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 8: Gendered Migrations and Latin America

PART FOUR: SOCIAL POLICY AND THE SEARCH FOR SECURITY

Chapter 9: Livelihood Struggles and Market Reform: (Un)making Chinese Labour After State Socialism. (Ching Kwan Lee)

Chapter 10: Informal Workers’ Access to Social Security and Social Protection (Francie Lund)

Chapter 11: Gender and Social Policy in a Development Context: Rethinking the Family and the State (Shahra Razavi and Shireen Hassim)

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index'

Biography

Shahra Razavi is Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), where she oversees the Institute’s Programme on Gender and Development. She has conceptualized and coordinated global research projects in a number of areas, including Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights; Gender and Social Policy; and The Political and Social Economy of Care. Her recent books include Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of "the Social", edited with Shireen Hassim (Palgrave, 2006); Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights, special issue of Journal of Agrarian Change (Blackwell, 2003); Gender Justice, Development and Rights, edited with Maxine Molyneux (Oxford University Press, 2002). In 2004–2005, she coordinated the preparation of an UNRISD flagship report, Gender Equality: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World, which was the Institute’s contribution to the "Beijing+10" process.

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