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Globalization eBook Series

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  • Globalization and Militarism

    Feminists Make the Link

    by Cynthia Enloe ...
    Series series Globalization
    Militarism is being globalized today not only in war zones such as Ukraine and Syria, but in “peaceful” arenas such as families and football stadiums. Ideas and practices of masculinities and femininities are fuel for this global militarization. Who is presumed to be “weak” and who “tough”? Who is the “protector, who the “grateful protected”? Written by one of the world’s leading feminist scholars ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

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  • Borderless Economics

    Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism

    by Robert Guest ...
    An editor for The Economist looks at how international diasporas are accelerating and diversifying the flow of ideas, technology, and wealth, improving lives across the globe.A century ago, migrants often crossed an ocean and never saw their homelands again. Today, they call—or Skype—home the moment their flight has landed, and that's just the beginning. Thanks to cheap travel and easy ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Why Science Is Sexist

    by Nicola Gaston ...
    Series Book 34 - BWB Texts
    Science changes the world because the creation of knowledge opens up new pathways for us to explore new ways of doing things, and new questions to ask. My optimism lies in the fact that I think that the answer to why science is sexist does all of these things.In this eye-opening BWB Text, Nicola Gaston, President of the New Zealand Association of Scientists, reveals the ways in which the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Evil Axis of Finance: The US-Japan-China Stranglehold on the Global Future

    The US-Japan-China Stranglehold on the Global Future

    by Richard, Westra ...
    Why, despite the existence of raft of potential international investment outlets, is a major share of global wealth and savings mpelled toward a United States (US) Wall Street centered casino ? Why has an increasingly gapping chasm crystallized between ever bloating global financial activities and the real world economy of production and trade? How is it that wealthy governmentsinjecting ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Prairie Town

    Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization

    by Jacqueline Edmondson ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
    Prairie Town: Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization describes the contemporary rural condition and efforts to sustain rural life in one small Minnesota community at the turn of the 21st century. Like many other agricultural based towns, Prairie Town struggled for survival within the context of the on-going farm crisis, NAFTA, neoliberal agricultural policies, and growing agribusiness ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • How We Get Free

    Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

    Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    Black feminists remind us "that America's destiny is inseparable from how it treats [black women] and the nation ignores this truth at its peril" ( The New York Review of Books).Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free." —Combahee River Collective StatementThe Combahee River Collective, a path ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Women Navigating Globalization

    Feminist Approaches to Development

    by Sue Ellen M. Charlton, Jana Everett ...
    Series series New Millennium Books in International Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Globalization and Contestation

    The New Great Counter-Movement

    by Ronaldo Munck ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Globalization is undoubtedly the great overarching paradigm of our era. However, there is still little agreement on what globalization actually ‘is’ and some do not accept that it ‘is’ anything at all.This new book addresses the contestation of globalization by the anti- or counter-globalization movement. To contest means to challenge, to call into question, to doubt, to oppose and to litigate. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Transnational America

    Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms

    by Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Robyn Wiegman ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture. Rather than simply frame the United States as an imperialist nation-state that imposes unilateral political power in the world, Grewal analyzes how the concept of “America” functions as ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure

    by Gerard Caprio ...
    Understanding twenty-first century global financial integration requires a two-part background. The Handbook of Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure begins its description of how we created a financially-intergrated world by first examining the history of financial globalization, from Roman practices and Ottoman finance to Chinese standards, the beginnings of corporate ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • Power Interrupted

    Antiracist and Feminist Activism inside the United Nations

    by Sylvanna M. Falcón ...
    Series series Decolonizing Feminisms
    Winner of the 2016 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, sponsored by the National Women's Studies AssociationIn Power Interrupted, Sylvanna M. Falcón redirects the conversation about UN-based feminist activism toward UN forums on racism. Her analysis of UN antiracism spaces, in particular the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance in Durban, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Making Feminist Sense of the Global Justice Movement

    by Bice Maiguashca, Catherine Eschle ...
    In recent years, the global justice movement has grabbed headlines and reshaped political imaginations worldwide. Surprisingly, however, feminism is largely absent from accounts of the movement—despite the fact that feminists are extensively involved on the ground. Addressing this significant gap in the literature, Eschle and Maiguashca shine a powerful light on what they term "feminist ... Read more

    $46.99 USD