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Table of Contents
Introduction
Women’s Resistance to the Violence of Global Capitalist Penetration
Erica G. Polakoff
Part 1: Neoliberal Policies, Migration and Women’s Resistance
Chapter 1
Neo-liberal Globalization in the Philippines
Its Impact on Filipino Women and Their Forms of Resistance
Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
Chapter 2
We’re Better Off Outside Our Country: Diasporic Ecuadorian Women in Spain Since the 1990’s
estheR Cuesta
Part 2: Women’s Resistance and Capitalist Production for Export
Chapter 3
Push and Pull Factors in Female Labour Migration: Evidence from Sri Lanka’s Garment Workers
Judith Shaw
Chapter 4
Historical Consciousness and Collective Action: Finding Women’s Resistance Where North Meets South
Mary E. Frederickson
Chapter 5
Waves of Resistance in the Colombian Flower Industry
Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama
Part 3: Alternative Trade Associations and Women’s Resistance
Chapter 6
Free Trade, Alternative Trade and Women in Peru: A First Look
Jane Henrici
Chapter 7
Women’s Rights and Collective Resistance: The Success Story of Marketplace India
Margaret A. McLaren
Part 4: Responses to Poverty: Women’s and Children’s Resistance
Chapter 8
Urban Poverty Reborn: A Gender and Generational Analysis
Jeanine Anderson
Chapter 9
Challenging Traditional Female Roles Through Social Participation: Tensions in Women’s Experiences in Argentina’s Picketing Movements
Ada Freytes Frey and Karina Crivelli
Chapter 10
The Feminization of Poverty in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Story Told by the Women of Bayview, Chatsworth
Saranel Benjamin-Lemert
Chapter 11
Global Capitalist Penetration, Child Labor and Children’s Collective Resistance in Defense of Their Rights
Erica G. Polakoff
Conclusion
Women and Neoliberal Globalization: Inequities and Resistance
Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
