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, by QUARTA Camila
Camila Quarta explains how and why the exposure of sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood has taken on wider significance in the weeks that followed.
The #MeToo movement on the streets of Paris, France
IN THE days and weeks since evidence of Harvey Weinstein’s decades-long pattern of (…)
, by GAAG Nikki van der
Things have certainly improved for women, but at the top of both industry and government the faces remain stubbornly male
here have been huge changes for women in terms of employment in the past decades, with women moving into paid employment outside the home in ways that their grandmothers (…)
, by EISENSTEIN Hester
Global elites have appropriated feminist language to justify brutal exploitation and neoliberal development.
I have often been asked since the publication of my book what I mean by “feminism seduced.” Who is seducing feminism, and why? It’s a complicated question, with several meanings. I (…)
, by BAHN Kate, BOUSHEY Heather, EISENSTEIN Zillah, GAMBLE Joelle, GEIER Kathleen
How Gender Changes Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’
In this installment of The Curve, we asked our contributors to examine Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. If economic inequality continues to soar, as Piketty says it will, and inherited wealth plays a (…)
, by HASNAIN Tahir
Coastal ecosystem management is currently considered to be a key element for the sustainable development of these zones. Coastal areas are high activity zones for fishing, but also for farming, trading, tourism and industry. Coastal regions are especially vulnerable to the hazards of climate (…)
“The Future We Want,” the text being discussed by governments for Rio+20, promotes rhetoric of empowering women but in reality, it not only disempowers them further, it also gives more rights and access to corporations.
The basic step towards achieving women empowerment is for women to have (…)
, by ARMSTRONG Pat, LEFEBVRE Priscillia
Priscillia Lefebvre (PL): A large focus of your research seems to be the ways in which gender and labour intersect from the vantage point of health care delivery. What have been the main influences that have affected the trajectory of your research in terms of a feminist rooted political economy (…)
, by GHOSH Jayati
This article is adapted from the foreword to Peter Custers, Capital Accumulation and Women’s Labour in Asian Economies (forthcoming Monthly Review Press, 2012) —The Editors.
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One of the enduring myths about capitalism that continues to be perpetuated in mainstream economic (…)
, by VIVAS Esther
In the countries of the Global South, women are the principal producers of food, those in charge of working the land, safegaurding the seeds, gathering the fruit, obtaining water. Between 60 to 80% of food production in these countries is down to women, and worldwide at a level of 50%. These (…)
, by VIVAS Esther
A shorter version of this article is also available on ESSF (article 26777): La Via Campesina: Food Sovereignty and the Global Feminist Struggle
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Systems of food production and consumption have always been socially organized, but their organization has varied (…)
, by OJHA Ruby
Book Review
Name of the Book : Women Work and Health: Current Concerns Edited by : Amita Sahaya and Sunita Kaistha Published by : The Women Press, New Delhi-110007 in association with Women Work and health Initiatives (WWHI), New Delhi, India Reviewed by : Dr. Ruby Ojha, Associate (…)
, by SUNITA Kaistha
Paper presented at the symposium on Women Work and Health organized by Women Work and Health Initiative, Asia New Delhi at XXXII ISSC Congress- 18-22 December, 2008, New Delhi.
Introduction
The focus of this paper is that gender affiliation and gender identities of individuals affect their (…)
, by COONTZ Stephanie
Over the past seven years, two small changes in the participation of mothers in the workforce have generated almost as much attention as the initial entry of wives and mothers into the working world in the 1960s.
Between 1998 and 2000, the labor force participation of women with babies under (…)
, by WILLIAMS Lynne
AS FEMINISTS WE often focus our attention on the effects gender inequality has on women. And while this inequality still exists and requires our unwavering attention, as socialist feminists we also focus on the effect this inequality has on our ability to organize a class conscious movement, (…)
, by TREILLET Stéphanie
The existence of women’s oppression pre-dates not only globalization, but also capitalism itself. Moreover, due to its specific characteristics, the consequences that globalization exerts on it are not a foregone or one-sided conclusion. Globalization implies an unequal and different extension (…)
, by McALLISTER Carol
Shifts in the world capitalist system have had a profound effect on the forms and conditions of women’s work, and thus on their experiences of oppression and their struggles for liberation as both women and workers. Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — two places where I (…)
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