Bickham Mendez / Joseph / Rosenberg From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras

Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8730-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

Asks how and under what circumstances grassroots organizations tap into global networks and how gender plays into transnational political practices, addressing these issues through extended ethnographic research into a Nicaraguan women's organization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bickham Mendez, Jennifer

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Series vi

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

1. "Just Us and Our Worms": The Working and Unemployed Women's Movement, "Maria Elena Cuardra" 1

2. Oppositional Politics in Nicaragua and the Formation of MEC 25

3. Gendering Power and Resistance in an Era of Globalizations 59

4. "Autonomous but Organized": MEC's Search for an Organizational Structure 79

5. "Rompiendo Esqruemas": MEC's Political Strategies and the Free Trade Zone 133

6. MEC and the Postsocialist State: Democracy, Rights, and Citizenship under Globalization 177

7. Resistance Goes Global: Power and Opposition in an Age of Globalization 205

Notes 227

Abbreviations and Acronyms 239

Bibliography 241

Index 267

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Bickham Mendez is Associate Professor of Sociology at the College of William and Mary.