Jennifer Bickham Mendez

From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras

Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9780822335658
• ISBN-10: 0822335654
• Artikelnr.: 22013937

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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