Juanita Elias (UK University of Warwick)

Gender Politics and the Pursuit of Competitiveness in Malaysia

Women on Board

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is concerned with how the pursuit of national economic competitiveness by states has come to be intertwined with a globalised gender agenda-one in which women and the household economy are seen as 'untapped' resources.

Produktdetails

• RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781032173184
• ISBN-10: 1032173181
• Artikelnr.: 62571129

Autorenporträt

Juanita Elias is Professor of International Political Economy at the University of Warwick, UK. She is a feminist political economist particularly interested in gendered regimes of work, care and migration in Southeast Asia. Her articles have appeared in journals including: Review of International Studies; Asia Pacific Viewpoint; The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; International Feminist Journal of Politics; Globalizations; and Asian Studies Review. She has co-edited the Edward Elgar Handbook on International Political Economy and Gender (2018, with Adrienne Roberts); The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia (with Lena Rethel); and, The Global Political Economy of the Household in Asia (with Samanthi J. Gunawardana).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Bringing Women 'On Board' 1. Promoting Competitiveness in
Malaysia 2. Transforming Women's Economic Participation: A Gender Politics
of Competitiveness Promotion 3. 'A First Class Mentality with a Heart for
Progress': The Family, Islam and the Moral Political Economy of
Competitiveness 4. Civil Society, Market Feminism and the Creation of
'Board Ready' Women 5. Whose Social Reproduction? Migrant Domestic Work and
the New Malaysian 'Middle-Class Reality' Conclusion: Gendering
Competitiveness: Comparative Insights