What distinguished feminism in the industrialized countries from that in the global south?

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The literatures on economic globalization and feminist understandings of global processes have largely remained separate. In this article, our goal is to bring them into productive conversation so that research on globalization can benefit from feminist engagements with globalization. In the first section, which focuses on the conceptual challenges of bringing the economic globalization literature into conversation with feminist analysis, we identify several key exclusions in that literature and propose parallel inclusions that a feminist reading of globalization suggests. Our suggested inclusions relate to the spaces, scales, subjects, and forms of work that research on economic globalization has largely neglected. The second section takes up several key themes in the large body of feminist research on global economic processes, which is also largely absent from the economic globalization literature: the gendering of work, gender and structural adjustment programs, and mobility and diaspora. In the final section, we address the implications of feminist epistemologies and methodologies for research on economic globalization. Here we argue for grounded, collaborative studies that incorporate perspectives of the south as well as the north and that construct understandings of place and the local, as well as space and general global processes; we point to the coconstitution of different geographic scales and highlight the need for studies that cut across them. The article demonstrates how a feminist analysis of globalization entails far more than recognizing the importance of gender; it requires substantial rethinking of how to conceptualize, study, and act in relation to economic globalization.

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Economic Geography, published quarterly, is a leading English-language journal devoted to the study of economic geography and is widely read by academics and professionals around the world. Highlighting the publication of theoretically-based empirical articles and case studies of significant theoretical trends that are occurring within the field of economic geography, the journal serves as a forum for high-quality and innovative scholarship. In keeping with the international scope and impact of this work, Economic Geography focuses upon exciting new research ideas and analyses emerging from scholarly networks worldwide. Each issue includes feature articles and book reviews. Articles in the past decade chronicle the significant upsurge of scholarly interest in economic geography during a period of massive change, rampant technological growth, and realignment in the global economy. Economic Geography will continue to stress important contributions to the ongoing development of theory in global economic geography.

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Challenging Women's Global Inequalities: Some Priorities for Western Philosophers

Philosophical Topics

Vol. 30, No. 2, Global Inequalities (FALL 2002)

, pp. 229-252 (24 pages)

Published By: University of Arkansas Press

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43154400

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Our semi-annual journal is published by the University of Arkansas Department of Philosophy. Philosophical Topics publishes contributions to all areas of philosophy, each issue being devoted to the problems in one area. Recent issues have been concerned with individuation, introspection, and free will.

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What distinguishes feminism in the industrialized countries from that in the global south?

Many feminists in the Global South felt that feminism in the industrialized countries was too individualistic, overly focused on sexuality, and insufficiently concerned with issues of motherhood, marriage, and poverty to be of much use.

In what ways did the global north south divide find expression in the past century?

In what ways did the Global North/South divide find expression in the past century? There was expression of the divide between Global North & South in many of ways. There were fights to dominate the world trade & many countries found themselves in times of inflation due to this race to be on top.

What factors drove economic globalization after ww2?

Nonetheless, after a decline in global trade during the Great Depression, developments after World War II— including population growth, technological advances, and the promotion of global trade by the leading powers of the capitalist world—have all led to further rapid economic globalization.

Which of the following factors contributed to economic globalization during the twentieth century?

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