Women Navigating Globalization: Feminist Approaches to Development

by Jana Everett, Sue Ellen M. Charlton

This up-to-date text offers a clear and cogent introduction to women in development. Exploring the global structures and processes that impede or support the empowerment of women, Jana Everett and Sue Ellen M. Charlton use a feminist lens to understand contemporary gender roles. Without such a lens, they argue, our understanding of globalization and development is incomplete, resulting in flawed policies that fail to improve the lives of millions of people around the globe. After a set of introductory chapters that conceptually frame the issues, the authors then investigate women’s struggles within and against globalization and development through powerful case studies of sex trafficking, water, work, and health. These chapters, by using specific examples, develop the concepts of structure and agency, levels of analysis, and feminist approaches as tools to help students understand the complexities of development and alternative strategies.

Through rich interdisciplinary analysis, Everett and Charlton explore the individual and collective strategies women have used to improve their lives under globalization and weigh how effective they have been. Their book will be an essential resource in women’s studies, political science, political economy, anthropology, sociology, and development studies.

228 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Rissa (rissasreading) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.4 - I was a little let down with this book honestly. I felt like it spent a lot of time explaining what the book was going to be talking about, and the remainder felt like a conglomeration of facts that didn't feel like they added onto any particular argument or thought. Truly, it felt like a quarter of this book was "in the following sections we will discuss...." and it could've benefitted from just simply talking about them. I did walk away from this with some new information but overall this was really lacking good information in my opinion. I did specifically enjoy that they included a chapter on Water in relation to women and their household work, especially in today's climate.

[Mills College Library]

305.4 E933 2014